We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Database Monitoring and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ability to discover and track transactions."
"Knowing which tables on the database were working the most was valuable. It helped the client understand where they need to focus. They streamlined a lot of their queries and brought the resource usage down. It helped them to find long-running queries. They rewrote them completely so that they don't take as long and the application performs better."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
"The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's most valuable feature is the ability of the out-of-the-box to update the information, provide various metrics, and possibly include custom metrics."
"AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites."
"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."
"We like the on-premises platform and the horizontal scalability."
"It has helped us deliver better solutions to our end customers, and helps them in their digital transformation journey."
"The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
"The solution is amazing, it does well when you need to use it."
"Dynatrace is heavily automated which is a big advantage. You don't have to configure a lot, it installs and it runs straight away. There's direct return on investment and you can focus on more interesting stuff than always have to configure and change the configurations. Issues or problems in detection is also fully automated, which is great."
"The real user experience monitoring is very helpful. We can see what real users are seeing, what JavaScript errors, what pages are very slow for them. As well, it helps to correlate the front-end users to the back-end application components, and the corresponding Method which is failing, as well. We are able to go to the correct spot and fix the issue."
"It prevents (together with performance testing) production performance issues which usually result in customer complaints or system downtime."
"We are able to prevent the major downtimes by proactive monitoring alerts."
"The product requires high maintenance."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."
"The solution could improve the server size for AppDynamics to include middleware products, which is doesn't yet cover. If they add middleware for sophisticated sites, AppDynamics would be the global choice."
"The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."
"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."
"The solution must improve security and setup."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The solution needs to support IBM products."
"Searches should be faster."
"We would like to see more dashboarding capabilities and the ability to export custom reports."
"Better root cause detection and improve root cause categories. In some cases, the root cause points out only a clue of what has happened."
"UEM (User Experience Management) works great for web clients and Android and IOS apps, but for other rich clients it's a lot more challenging."
"If the user interface were made more intuitive then it would really benefit the product."
"Setting up the thresholds and alerting, it is complicated to understand their use cases."
"Because we are financial, there are certain things that we cannot put on the cloud. However, that is a given fact, not only for us. It is a given fact for any financial company because of PCI compliance. Because of PCI compliance, companies don't take the risk of putting data in the cloud."
"Improve Dynatrace for the following industries: telco, eCommerce, and banking."
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AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews. AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with AppDynamics and AWS X-Ray, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. Dynatrace report.
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