We are using this software to monitor an online banking system in a production environment.
Team Leader at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
PurePath analysis functionality has helped us find issues in important systems before release
Pros and Cons
- "We can see each session, end-to-end, and discover issues."
- "The user interface needs to be improved."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Dynatrace has improved our organization because we can see big problems in the most important systems before these issues will be seen by clients.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the PurePath analysis. We can see each session, end-to-end, and discover issues.
What needs improvement?
The user interface needs to be improved.
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For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Consultant at Reply
Allows for the inclusion of legacy technology within our monitored environment
Pros and Cons
- "The User experience monitor is a real added value."
- "It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications."
What is our primary use case?
APM monitoring and troubleshooting for any kind of technology.
How has it helped my organization?
This has improved our organization because any kind of technology, even legacy equipment, is now monitored.
What is most valuable?
The user experience monitor is a real added value.
What needs improvement?
It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications.
For how long have I used the solution?
Three years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Root cause identification and reporting helps us to respond more quickly to problems
Pros and Cons
- "Dynatrace gives excellent insight into the performance of our applications."
- "The extending of Dynatrace with plugins can be better."
What is our primary use case?
We run our application on a Windows 2008 to 2016 environment. We needed a tool to give us insight into how our applications were running. Dynatrace was the answer.
How has it helped my organization?
Dynatrace gives excellent insight into the performance of our applications. This helps the IT department to respond quickly to problems because the root cause is reported by Dynatrace.
What is most valuable?
We find almost all of the features valuable, including Integration, Smartscape, and Problems.
What needs improvement?
The extending of Dynatrace with plugins can be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Works at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Enables us to reduce the time to detect the root cause incident and also to avoid missing incidents
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI."
- "Improvements are needed in the navigation and timeframe selection when browsing problems."
What is our primary use case?
We are a partner and are selling this solution. We also use it internally.
How has it helped my organization?
This solution has helped us to reduce the time to detect the root cause incident and also to avoid missing incidents.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI. The correlation between events and impacts is helpful, as is the automatic detection of the infrastructure.
What needs improvement?
Improvements are needed in the navigation and time-frame selection when browsing problems, sometimes, the time-frame set change and I need to re-set it again, plus I find the navigation bar on the top left quite cumbersome, when i'm analyzing problem and I want to go back to the previous view, for me the nav bar should be the solution but often, when selecting the last element in the bar, I do not go back to my previous page but to the "main element page" (Aka, When doing deep analysis the analysis components are not shown on the nav bar and the only way is to press the browser "go back" button).
For how long have I used the solution?
More than one year.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. We are official partner while still using the solution for our company needs.
Works
Provides continuous monitoring for auditing and troubleshooting
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
- "I would like to see dashboards included, and maybe more possibilities in terms of customization."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution for continuous monitoring in our customers' environments, auditing, and troubleshooting.
How has it helped my organization?
This is an easy to use solution and our customers like it.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management). It is also easy to install.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see more default dashboards included, and maybe more possibilities in terms of customization.
What was our ROI?
The ROI for this solution is fast.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
TitleICT management division director with 501-1,000 employees
Solves a variety of DevOps-related issues for our customers
Pros and Cons
- "The features that we find most valuable are automatic root cause detection, topology discovery, and session replay."
- "I would like to see an App store for plugins and extensions."
What is our primary use case?
As a system integration company, we provide it as an APM solution to our customers.
How has it helped my organization?
Dynatrace solved various kinds of Ops / DevOps issues for our customers including bad code, bad configurations, operational issues, etc.
What is most valuable?
The features that we find most valuable are automatic root cause detection, topology discovery, and session replay. Basically, all the features provided are valuable.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see an App store for plugins and extensions. This would provide a single point for all Dynatrace users to download and install product extensions from.
For how long have I used the solution?
Three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Very good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Exceptional.
How are customer service and technical support?
Exceptional. Very quick replies (sometimes in the order of minutes), very professional.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Not really.
How was the initial setup?
Very straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
In-house.
What was our ROI?
Case by case.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
N/A
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
AppD, New Relic
What other advice do I have?
Have Dynatrace or one of its partner do a PoC. You will not regret it.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. We are system integrator providing Dynatrace solutions to our customers.
Works
An easy-to-use tool to assist our customers in detecting problems
Pros and Cons
- "Ease of problem detection and alerting, visual timeline, and user-sessions are some of the best features of Dynatrace."
- "The web interface, in some cases, is a little ambiguous to use."
What is our primary use case?
Our implementation is not a single case. We are the local partner for Dynatrace in Romania and have very different use cases that differ based on our customers.
Dynatrace is being used from monitoring the end user experience to infrastructure monitoring and real-time business and impact analysis.
How has it helped my organization?
The ease of use and full stack, 100% visibility inside the monitored applications has really helped us improve, showcase, and implement Dynatrace throughout our clients' systems.
Ease of problem detection, alerting, visual timeline, and user-sessions are some of the best features of Dynatrace.
What is most valuable?
There are lots of features that Dynatrace provides that really help the business grow. From user experience, where you can view exactly what your users are experiencing, to AI problem detection, and root cause analysis where the IT department is really keen to use Dynatrace.
What needs improvement?
The web interface, in some cases, is a little ambiguous to use. From passing through different screens to go and drill down, to not propagating the filter timeframes from different screens.
Apart from that, all of Dynatrace’s features are a real plus to have implemented.
For how long have I used the solution?
Two years.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Local partner.
Works
Performs stress-testing and evaluations to help identify bottlenecks
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
- "We would like to see an AI tool that detects issues with our site in real time."
What is our primary use case?
We used this solution in a production environment to perform stress testing and evaluations to help find bottlenecks.
We monitored user behavior and identified the funnel most used by our customers. In other services, we wanted to detect third-party tools with the wrong service.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session. It is very useful to know all of the customer details (device category, Operating System used, browser version, location of the customer, and connectivity).
We also need to know which areas of our site have the worst performance.
What needs improvement?
It would be an improvement to know where we lost our conversion funnel. It’s very important to share the same information with other departments of the company and converse using the same dashboards.
We would like to see an AI tool that detects issues with our site in real time.
What other advice do I have?
Nowadays, we are not Dynatrace customers. However, we want to keep up to date with product functionality in order to evaluate the necessity of changing our current solution.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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