Dynatrace Reviews

We use this solution for performance monitoring and identifying resource management problems.

We hope to improve our customer experience by making our webpage, native applications, and B2B interfaces function properly. In our environment, we have several databases and several types of code. The databases include Oracle, MSSQL, and MongoDB. 

It is critical to have the proper tool.

One of the features that sets this product apart from its competitors is that it generates a solution. We really like the number of reports it generates and the information that is provided to assist with analysis.

This solution also has the capability of analyzing our messaging software.

We would like to see more third-party tools for training.

We carefully looked at all of the options on the market and currently, we are in the process of a pilot installation of Dynatrace. The initial results are encouraging and we are waiting for more data to make the final decision.

At this time it seems that Dynatrace has almost everything we need.

We use this solution to assist with resolving incidents in a banking environment.

This solution helps the bank to detect problems faster.

The most valuable feature is the workflow, which helps you to easily have an overview of the infrastructure that you are analyzing, without having worked with it previously.

The AI is not that intelligent and there are different places where it could be even more automated. For example, when you are looking at the code tree and you must manually click to expand the tree until you find the process.

Our primary use case is to monitor the full stack of our digital platform, including the user experience. This provides us with business insights.

This solution has helped us with faster identification of the root cause, allowing faster resolution and increased uptime.

The most valuable feature is the AI, which makes root cause identification much faster, and the support much easier.

I would like to have the ability to share live data with selected third parties so that they can see how their product is performing for our company.

We use the Dynatrace platform to perform Application Performance Management for our Kubernetes clusters and some other legacy clusters. We have many Kubernetes clusters in our company and we are connecting each to an on-premise Dynatrace platform so that we can analyze the performance of each one separately.

Besides being an Application Performance management platform, Dynatrace has many important features that are easy to use. This gives us more time to focus on business. From installation to page load analysis, passing by monitoring hosts. Everything works like a charm.

The most valuable features of Dynatrace are the ease of installation and management, as well as its extensibility.

Dynatrace provides a wide range of platform supports that can be installed.

The service should be improved such that it is more useful to its clients. For instance, detect repeated performance-issue-related root causes, optional log streaming for hosts, processes, or a group of processes.

It needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically.

For the Kubernetes part, we have a good operator that takes care of updating the agents so we have nothing to do.

Our primary use cases are for APM and digital experience management.

The ability to solve production issues quickly is the most valuable improvement for each of our customers. Also, rolling out and maintaining the solution is more than easy and requires very little effort from the customers. This is unique compared to other vendors.

The most valuable features are the speed of deployment without any changes to the monitored environment, and the very well defined and implemented user interface.

Working with the user interface is a pleasure for any customer since it is fast, responsive, and very well designed.

From the other features, the ability to drill down to the code level is often very valuable when doing an analysis of issues. Also, the integrated AI (assisted machine learning) helps to analyze anomalies without the requirement to define and describe your environment.

As the product is evolving quickly and product features are added on a monthly basis, a more transparent roadmap would be more than welcome.

Also, some parts of the business operations, such as pricing, should be improved since the terms are changing and it is not easy to do estimates.

We get APM requirements from various customers raising concerns about poor performance for their application. They do not know what is wrong and, most importantly, what is causing it. Dynatrace has helped a lot to identify performance bottlenecks and helped to fix them before the impact is increased.

Partnership with Dynatrace has given access to training, their knowledge base, etc. This has given us awareness about the latest trends in technology and how we can utilize Dynatrace to align with it. We have gained customers’ trust that we can provide them the best value from the Dynatrace solution.

The most valuable features for us include problem detection, root cause identification, Smartscape, and integration with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.

This solution supports integration with Gen 3 solutions.

The following features are also valuable:

• PurePath and stack trace details
• UEM (User Experience Management)
• Service flow mapping
• Ease of deployment
• Kubernetes monitoring

The chat support definitely needs to be uplifted. Most of the time, chat support is not good enough for answering queries. Local support should also be increased. 

There also needs to be more frequent training for partners, so teams can be enabled on product features and enhancements.

We use Dynatrace to monitor the API performance of the server.

Dynatrace has an auto-baseline and uses AI to monitor the performance of each API. The response time is related to the baseline.

The most valuable feature is the auto-baseline because I don't have to set it with Dynatrace. With New Relic, we had some problems with the configuration.

I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace.

Dynatrace is quite stable. I don't have any issues with it. With Dynatrace we need to upgrade and restart often. New Relic is more stable than Dynatrace.

I have not had any issues with the scalability of either New Relic or Dynatrace. They are both quite scalable.

Currently, we get the vendor support directly. Their support is adequate.

Last time we were using another APM and the company discontinued the APM product, so we had to switch.

The initial setup of Dynatrace is quite easy.

We implemented the installation ourselves without any issues or problems at all.

Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor are the features and local support of the agency. Those two along with pricing are very important. 

The reason we eventually chose Dynatrace was for the automatic (auto-baseline) of detection for the API performance issues.

We use New Relic as well in the same facilities.

I will rate the software a nine out of 10 because they are able to help solve our issues for us even though we don't understand the system fully. 

To make it a perfect 10, Dynatrace needs to implement the features from New Relic in the dashboard so that I can monitor my own performance. Even though New Relic is not as good as Dynatrace, I have to understand my own system. I set each parameter manually before every launch by five minutes.

I would suggest to prospective buyers to evaluate both Dynatrace and New Relic to see which features are best for your company. 

If you are not sure about the system requirements, choose Dynatrace. If you understand your own system and know by seeing a network outline exactly what you need for support, then choose New Relic.

Our primary use case for both Dynatrace and AppDynamics is for application performance monitoring (APM). The main reason for having application performance monitoring is, when we see something is running slowly, we can immediately look to see where the issue is at before our systems crash on us. So, one of the major roles it plays for us is the ability to keep our system performing in peak shape.

Our ability to see issues coming, then quickly isolate and correct problems was our main use of Dynatrace. We are not there yet with AppDynamics. It has been ten months, and we are still spinning our wheels trying to set it up and figure out how it works.

When collecting data with Dynatrace, we saw every single transaction that happened in real-time. Whereas, with AppDynamics, they take snapshots, and we only see a tenth of the information that we did with Dynatrace. While the information is there, if an issue with an application happened in-between snapshots, it would not be readily identifiable. You would have to go hunt and peck for it. We don't have time for that.

Using Dynatrace, we collected application metrics within three hours, in most cases. The majority of our triage were within three hours, then we were able to discover the root cause of issues.

With Dynatrace today, you have a single agent. You stick it on a server, and it doesn't matter if it's Linux, Windows, etc. It is a single agent and executable. You run it, and it injects itself into your collecting data. This is compared with AppDynamics, which on some of servers, we have had to install as many as four different agents and configure them all individually, trying to collect the same type of information.

The dashboarding for Dynatrace is ten times easier to set up and has more options of what you can put on it, especially if you are in a single payment class environment.

With Dynatrace in our environment, the managed server required root access to run. As a government agency with tight security, this has been an audit concern for us. A major area of improvement for Dynatrace would be to make it so the program does not need root access to perform. AppDynamics does not require root access to the servers. Once they are set up and configured, they can set their end run without root access.

The number one area of improvement for AppDynamics is to simplify their agent install. Instead of having four or five different agents to get all the different things that you need with different pieces of information, they need to figure out how to put theirs into a single agent, like Dynatrace has done.

We have not found AppDynamics in our environment useful at all. We are struggling to try and make it work. AppDynamics is for applications that are static. In our government agency, we are too dynamic. Everything is changing constantly, and AppDynamics does not work in this type of environment.

The stability for Dynatrace is probably 85 percent. We had enough issues where one of the services would just stop running, then we would have to restart it. Not very often, but it happened.

With AppDynamics we haven't been able to use the system long enough to determine its stability.

Dynatrace is very scalable. We grew it over the 12 years that we had it. So, that has proven that it is scalable. 

AppDynamics is scalable as the environment grows. However, we are still in the product's infancy, so we haven't seen this happen yet.

A company with a single application over multiple locations, like a retailer, but only needs to worry about one application and monitoring it, this is the perfect fit for AppDynamics. If you have an organization with more than 40, you definitely want Dynatrace. AppDynamics is not a viable product for an organization with lots of applications.

On a scale of one to ten, my experience working with the AppDynamics onsite people and offsite support is maybe a five. I feel that they don't want to take responsibility for the areas that AppDynamics is lacking in. When things don't work in which they were sold, then they want to tell us that it is our environment more than their application not functioning correctly. 

Whenever we had issues with Dynatrace, you could get Dynatrace support on the phone, and they were all over it. They would get into our machines, then take screenshots or look at the performance of the systems while it was running. They wrote custom patches to help us resolve issues that we had. I would rate the support that we receive from Dynatrace as a ten out of ten. 

We have been using Dynatrace since 2007 and AppDynamics for just about a year. We have not been using them concurrently. Dynatrace was not renewed, and management decided that we would use AppDynamics. This decision was beyond my control.

With Dynatrace, the installation and setup were a piece of cake. It could be accomplished usually within fifteen minutes, and definitely, within a half hour of deciding to do it. 

A big difference that we found between the two vendor is in setting the system up and getting them ready for production. With the latest version of Dynatrace, it took three days and we had it in production. We are still trying to get AppDynamics in production since last May.

With our Dynatrace system, it required three servers and the program when we installed it on the servers. It was straightforward. You just clicked, clicked, and clicked as it went through the setup, then you were done. 

With AppDynamics, we are now on eight servers to make it function like it should. We are ten months into it now, and we're still trying to get it right. We have AppDynamics folks onsite to help us with it. It is just difficult to implement. There is so much to it. 

I sat down with one of their architects to decide how many servers that we needed, how they need to be spec'd out, etc., and that is what we built. Then, when we stood it up, and it didn't work, some other personnel from the AppDynamics team came in to look at it. They said, "None of this is correct. You are on the wrong this and that." 

Thus, we did not have consistent information and support from AppDynamics when implementing the system. However, it is up and running now.

Our annual costs were about the same for both AppDynamics and Dynatrace.

When learning Dynatrace, we brought in Dynatrace people to come onsite and take my team through a week long training. We did that two or three different times. They offered this type of training. They also have online training out on their community that I could set up for my team members. The effectiveness of that training was about 75 percent. 

With AppDynamics, they have provided some online training. The take away from it (from my team) has been maybe 10 to 15 percent. The training is geared more towards sales than using the product for what it was intended. It boasts the features and selling points of the AppDynamics product instead of the ins and outs of how to use it once it has been installed in our environment.

I would definitely recommend Dynatrace. I have the benefit of having used it for so many years. It takes less infrastructure to set it up initially. It's a single agent engine. You just set the agent up and run it, then it configures itself. It goes out and finds all your processes with everything that's running, configuring itself. The simplicity of the infrastructure and simplicity of setting it up, then actually using it, along with setting up your dashboards to monitor your metrics is much better. There are more features than the AppDynamics dashboarding.

I would rate it Dynatrace as a ten out of ten. 

At the point of where we're at with our AppDynamics experience, I would rate it as a five out of ten.