CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] vs Dynatrace comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Application Delivery Ana...

Average Rating

6.6

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Dynatrace

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

363

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (7th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (1st), AI Observability (3rd)

Featured Reviews

reviewer1237194

Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Good monitoring functionality, but technical support and integration with other products need to be improved

My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances. For CA Spectrum, the integration of this product is something that needs to be improved. Even some of their point products to not integrate very well, and ADA is one of them. The user interface needs to be improved. Technical support needs to be improved.

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The pricing is relatively low compared to other solutions in this area, and I'd go so far as to say it's even significantly less than the competition."

"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."

"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."

"Technical support is excellent."

"Dynatrace has great training available; it is easy for everybody to use, and anybody can go out to YouTube, watch a video, and figure out how to use the piece that they need."

"RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and the PurePaths, where you can see the stack trace, are helpful in finding problems."

"Since things are getting more complicated, it is nice to have artificial intelligence to correlate issues and events to come up with root cause."

"From my clients' perspective, Dynatrace below the dashboard is very good compared to other monitoring tools."

"Automation and anomaly detection has helped reduce MTTR and MTBF."

"Dynatrace was the perfect fit."

"We evaluated all the different tools, and this is the best of the best."

"Smartscape is a wonderful feature. I'm really loving it because there's no need for you to go deep into an analysis and go in to see where we are going wrong. You go to Smartscape, pass all the connections, and it will tell you the root cause."

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Cons

"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."

"Upgrades can be quite complex."

"The user interface needs improvement."

"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."

"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."

"This solution needs improvement in terms of automation."

"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."

"One thing that would help it tighter integration with DCRUM. It's somewhat difficult to drill down and see everything, but I think that's in the future versions. We just haven't seen that yet."

"We're developing more and more microservices and, each time, for an AppMon license, you have to deploy it, you have to configure it, you to get charged for it. It's very time-consuming."

"It can be improved in narrowing the exact exception/ERROR in application monitoring."

"It's not very scalable, we cannot add another server onto it."

"I think at times AppMon has given some folks some headaches from a configuration standpoint, and a maintenance standpoint, but aside from that I don't think they've really had many headaches with it."

"Dynatrace stands out, but it is a bit complex to understand and implement on servers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."

"The licensing for Dynatrace is high. If you want to go for monitoring solutions, then why Dynatrace? If you have a particular budget, you can go for many other monitoring tools - apart from Dynatrace - and they can help you more and give more data than Dynatrace can. It's not worth the money that you spend for Dynatrace."

"The price range is quite high."

"A Dynatrace partner will always be willing to give you a trial. Go through the trial to see if there is a benefit for your company."

"The setup costs for Dynatrace are low, however licensing costs are high."

"There is a license cost, which is obviously more expensive than an open-source solution, but for the return on investment from what you get from it, it's a great investment. Of course, it could always be cheaper."

"It's expensive."

"I feel the price is good for what the product does."

"We purchased a subscription for one year and it is an expensive solution for a large enterprise like ours."

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The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

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Also Known As

CA ADA, Application Delivery Analysis, NetQoS SuperAgent

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Overview

CA Application Delivery Analysis provides end-to-end response time monitoring at multiple component levels, giving Network Administrators the ability to quickly identify performance bottlenecks and to identify root cause in minutes as opposed to hours or days, resulting in up to 80% improvement in IT productivity and reduced Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).

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Dynatrace is advancing observability for today’s digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward. To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog and follow us on LinkedIn and X @dynatrace.

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TD Bank, Zurich North America, Accenture, Macquarie, United Airlines, Raymond James, BT, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, TELUS, American Airlines, Air Canada, ADT, Virgin Money

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