We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Elastic Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is favored for its comprehensive features, real-user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring capabilities. It also has a highly praised AI engine for root cause analysis and offers good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications.
"I have never been more confident in a tool's scalability because I've seen how easy it is for it to deal with the .NET Applets."
"The vendor team who did the setup was very good. They sent a very skillful resource for the setup."
"Dynatrace gives us and our clients information about all layers and components of their platform, including the most important starting point for us: real-time and historical end user experience."
"Reduced incidents, as alert monitoring aids in quicker resolution of events."
"Our company gets quick response times and qualified responses from technical support, so that is good."
"The server monitoring is very accurate in this tool. We are able to prevent many critical Incidents."
"Service discovery with artificial intelligence automatic anomaly root cause detection, and problems replay."
"The most valuable things that we have seen are the user experience and capturing what the users are doing inside the browser."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"Good design and easy to use once implemented."
"It's easy to deploy, and it's very flexible."
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"I would like the ability to export a user session into csv format. (I am aware that I can export a user session via a webhook)."
"This tool had a feature of doing load test in production or lower environment, which was shut down earlier this year. We are missing that feature badly and we definitely want to see that feature back."
"We would like to see more external tool integration, which is critical for us."
"We have some issues with react user sessions."
"The AppMon 6.5 is problematic in configuring. It is little finicky. When we configured the JVM, it did not work."
"I would like to see the ability to pull more user-friendly reports."
"I have not had very positive experiences with tech support in the last year. I found them to be arrogant, rude, not solving my problems, and not interested in solving my problems."
"I haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but I would like to see the ability, from an administrative standpoint, for it to collect statistics. I want to be able to see the servers that the agents are installed on. I want it to be able to start doing collections for me by platform: How many Linux servers do I have? How many Windows servers do I have? Statistically give me the information of how things are performing, but I want that in a dashboard, where I can look at a dashboard and I can look at a section. So the ability for me to drill down will make it easier for me."
"Elastic Observability is an excellent product for monitoring and visibility, but it lacks predictive analytics. Most solutions are aligned with the AIOps requirements, but this piece is missing in Elastic and should be included."
"The interface could be improved."
"The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper."
"Elastic APM's visualization is not that great compared to other tools. It's number of metrics is very low."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"The solution needs to use more AI. Once the product onboards AI, users would more effectively be able to track endpoints for specific messages."
"They need more skills in the market. There are not enough skills in the market. It is not pervasive enough on the market, in my opinion. In other words, there isn't a big enough user base."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Grafana, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor, Datadog and Sentry. See our Dynatrace vs. Elastic Observability report.
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