Dynatrace vs Microsoft Purview Audit comparison

Dynatrace and Microsoft are both solutions in the Log Management category. Dynatrace is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.7, while Microsoft is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.3. Dynatrace holds a 3.0% mindshare in Log Management, compared to Microsoft’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Dynatrace and Microsoft Purview Audit compete in enterprise software monitoring and auditing. Dynatrace tends to lead in user satisfaction for deployment and support, while Microsoft Purview Audit impresses with its feature range and perceived value.

Features: Dynatrace provides advanced monitoring capabilities, real-time analytics, and seamless integration. Microsoft Purview Audit focuses on comprehensive security audit functionalities, efficient data governance, and alignment with compliance goals.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace users suggest enhancing customization options, reducing complexity, and improving usability. Microsoft Purview Audit could benefit from more intuitive reporting, better integration options, and improved data handling features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace is praised for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Microsoft Purview Audit faces challenges in initial setup but is effective post-deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace's flexible pricing aligns with strong ROI. Microsoft Purview Audit, though potentially costly upfront, is seen as a worthwhile long-term investment due to extensive features.

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Ranking in Log Management

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

359

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)

Microsoft Purview Audit

Ranking in Log Management

34th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (31st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 3.0%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview Audit is 1.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	3.0%
Microsoft Purview Audit	1.1%
Other	95.9%

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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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Oksana Kosukhina.

Cloud Solution Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Integrated auditing has strengthened data retention and improved incident investigations

I have seen areas for improvement, specifically in Microsoft Purview Audit or in general about Microsoft. I have had a situation with documentation. I had a customer who wanted to create alerts and they had Microsoft 365 Business Premium. In the documentation, it was noted that this license is enough for creating alerts. When we tried to make them, we noticed they cannot do it with Microsoft 365 E3 because the customer had limited features to manage alerts. The customer had to buy E3. We created Microsoft support requests, and they confirmed that the documentation displayed not the real situation and they have been going to update documentation. The same situation occurred now with implementing Microsoft Purview Audit in the last autumn. eDiscovery was combined with search and content search, and the documentation was not clear at the beginning. It was a little difficult to describe to customers that now it is a part of eDiscovery. Content search is a very simple functionality, while eDiscovery is a little difficult. I am not entirely sure why Microsoft is going in the way of combining these services because they are the same. However, for a customer who has never seen these services, it is difficult to understand quickly. The same situation occurs with litigation holds and some other holds. For any mail, I am trying to keep data. For example, emails are held for a year or two years, ten years, it does not matter. It is difficult to understand where to find this data and where these emails are being held. I need to use eDiscovery to find out all deleted data that was kept somewhere in some hidden folders of the mailbox. Regular customers and regular administrators know that on-premises Exchange, for example, allows them to find the data in some repository and review the list of kept data. However, with this hold, we do not have any functionality to review the list of kept data. It is difficult to understand for customers how to work with this. I had a case where I spent three or four hours working deeply with a customer to explain how to work with eDiscovery, why Content Search is not there when it was before, what is an eDiscovery case, and why we are talking about all of this just to review a list of kept emails. This is difficult.

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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 features that we find most valuable are automatic root cause detection, topology discovery, and session replay."

"What Dynatrace has really allowed our team to do is focus more on innovation, rather than on monitoring and bug-squashing."

"Quick Fault Domain Isolations: When people are having a problem, understanding where to look."

"Dynatrace provides a clear view to application code; it reviews code to decide where to place check points to collect information."

"Helps us to see the troubleshooting points or what is hiccuping. This is where we go. We reboot, fix it, or do whatever it takes for it to be taken care of."

"It gives more visibility into all the coding (the black screen). It gives a nice screen. You can see ups and downs. You can see where the traffic is getting impacted, more on the convergence side."

"Dynatrace has reduced the time it takes to detect the service failing in production."

"The vendor team who did the setup was very good. They sent a very skillful resource for the setup."

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"We're easily saving at least one hour per day using this solution."

"The overall user experience with Microsoft Purview Audit is of higher quality than when it was branded as Compliance Center, and Microsoft consistently updates and evolves functionalities and the overall experience."

"The main Microsoft feature is that it offers common integration of services, of data, of identity, meaning user accounts, user access, and privileged access."

"The platform has significantly enhanced our operational insight into the overall Microsoft 365 environment."

Cons

"We have multiple tenants. If you have them up at the same time, you can't see in the UI which tenant you're in. It doesn't tell you."

"Message Bus monitoring: it is not possible to deep dive into the Tibco EMS bus."

"I think they're working on even more integration from external third party input, but that is ongoing. So the faster it's there the better. Clock monitoring is one of these areas where improvements can be made."

"Log analytics in the classic synthetic and RUM tools would be a great addition."

"We are still struggling a bit with finding an answer quickly."

"It was difficult to initially use the solution, how to use it and where to navigate."

"The scalability is there, but it is a headache when you do a lot of stuff and when you need to compare a lot of servers and do a lot of things. The scalability is very difficult to maintain."

"We have called the technical support and most of the calls are returned quickly. Some of them will be a real technical problem and then they have to reach their engineering side; the support is not able to help."

More Dynatrace cons

"I had a case where I spent three or four hours working deeply with a customer to explain how to work with eDiscovery, why Content Search is not there when it was before, what is an eDiscovery case, and why we are talking about all of this just to review a list of kept emails."

"We do have a Denial of Access happening."

"Areas for product improvement include enhancing customization options and integrating more comprehensive compliance features."

"We are still in the early stages of leveraging Microsoft Purview Audit. Currently, it's primarily used for the audit function."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"The only limitation with scaling to cloud-native environments is licensing. It all depends on how many DEM units you're willing to license. The more of DEM units that you purchase, the more user data you can collect."

"Licensing is a bit complicated for Dynatrace, and pricing is dependent on how much your organization invests."

"From what I have heard in the company, Dynatrace is expensive."

"I have not been able to observe more than 1% overhead, despite Dynatrace saying that it can be slightly higher in some situations."

"We found a tool that can be utilized by testing, DevOps, marketing, software engineering, and monitoring. Before, we always had everybody doing their own thing. Now, everybody's utilizing one tool, which is huge. That is a huge savings."

"Just go with Dynatrace. Just start with Dynatrace. Do not go into AppMon. Start with Dynatrace, because AppMon is going to give you so much extra stuff that 99% of your user base will not need it, including yourself."

"Dynatrace is still kind of an expensive solution compared to others. But I recognize that they are ahead of the competition when we do a feature by feature comparison."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	299

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Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

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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What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview Audit?

It is not so expensive in comparison with other products, but I can tell you about an example.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview Audit?

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Purview Audit?

I work with Defender for IoT by chance because I see that we have enough reviews for Defender for Office 365 today, and we need reviews for some Azure products. I work with Azure products such as L...

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Overview

Dynatrace offers AI-driven root cause analysis, full-stack observability, and more. Its seamless integration and automated alerts enhance operational efficiency for application performance monitoring across diverse environments.

Dynatrace provides users with comprehensive tools for proactive monitoring, leveraging AI-powered insights to detect bottlenecks and monitor user behavior. It enhances system dependency visualization via Smartscape and offers deep transaction insights through PurePath. Session Replay captures real user experiences, while custom dashboards emphasize essential metrics. Integration capabilities and seamless deployment are key, though users face challenges with navigation, integration, and licensing. Enhancing third-party training tools and optimizing real-time AI diagnostics is desired, with demands for better database monitoring reports and simpler UI.

What are Dynatrace's key features?

AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis: Identifies issues with precision.
Full-Stack Observability: Monitors across all platforms.
Smartscape: Visualizes system dependencies.
PurePath: Provides transaction flow insights.
Session Replay: Captures user interactions.
Custom Dashboards: Focuses on essential metrics.
Automated Alerts: Minimizes downtime.

What benefits should users consider?

Operational Efficiency: Enhances performance management.
Seamless Deployment: Reduces manual intervention.
Integration Capabilities: Ensures smooth system coexistence.
User Experience Insights: Tracks behavior and reliability.

Dynatrace is implemented in industries like finance for monitoring infrastructure and user experience. In manufacturing, it helps ensure system reliability. Its AI-driven approach is crucial for cloud deployments, supporting performance optimization and proactive monitoring.

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Microsoft Purview Audit offers streamlined, user-friendly solutions for managing Microsoft 365 environments. It excels in security incident log management, privileged access control, and simplifying data access adjustments with integration between AD and Azure AD.

Key functionalities of Microsoft Purview Audit include capabilities tailored to monitor environment health, compliance, and security management within Active Directory and Microsoft ecosystems. Users can efficiently manage roles, access controls, and data retention protocols, making it a valuable resource for strategically-driven organizations with legal requirements. While the integration with Dataverse enhances its utility, user challenges arise due to complexity in certain aspects such as litigation holds and accessing hidden folder data. Additionally, users have reported issues with the precision of customization and compliance documentation, particularly when handling alerts and eDiscovery functions. Despite these challenges, Purview Audit remains a leading tool within the Microsoft suite for managing log retrieval and security oversight.

What are the key features of Microsoft Purview Audit?

User-friendly Dashboards: Easily track the health of Microsoft 365 environments.
Privileged Access Management: Efficiently manage and secure access to critical resources.
Log Management: Gain insights into security incidents through comprehensive log management.
Rules-based Access Control: Implement strict access protocols tailored to organizational frameworks.
Role-based Delegation: Streamline role delegation while adhering to security policies.
Zero Trust Security: Enhance security with a zero trust model for data protection.

What benefits should users look for?

Data Retention: Meet legal and compliance needs efficiently.
Easy Configuration: Simplify setup processes for quick implementation.
Seamless AD to Azure AD Migration: Transition effortlessly between directory services.
Detailed Audit Capabilities: Understand, monitor, and review security actions easily.

In industries with stringent data governance and compliance mandates, Microsoft Purview Audit is utilized to ensure a robust security posture. Users engage it for monitoring compliance within financial services, healthcare, and other sectors where data privacy is paramount. With its SaaS-based integration in Microsoft environments, organizations access refined log data leveraging platforms like Power Platform Admin Center, ensuring comprehensive oversight and operational efficiency.

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Sample Customers

Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express

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