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 solution is very, very stable. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches on the system."
"Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases."
"You have a live view of what happens when something goes wrong on the production or support side. You don't have to scramble and do guesswork. We can identify the query that creates the bottleneck or slows the performance of the database system. It can give you points on how to debug and fix the system."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ability to discover and track transactions."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
"AppDynamics is a good tool that offers excellent out-of-the-box dashboards and application topology."
"Data monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"My primary use of the tool is to keep revenue coming into the business and to use it to help our business team in running their site analytics and web performance tools. They have things like Adobe Analytics that provide them with one layer of data. We use Dynatrace as another railroad metric to both confirm the Adobe Analytics data and enhance it in certain places where Adobe won't give us the answers that we need. In terms of metrics, we've had roughly about 120,000 unique sessions per hour on our website. So, we're capturing a lot of session data and real user data, and all of that data is kept in user sessions. We can look this information up by user ID to tag any given session that we want to find by date/client. E.g., if the user said that they had an issue last Thursday at 11:00 PM, then we can just do a search on their email address, go through all their sessions, and find the one that they mentioned, then dig directly into that one."
"Gives systems back-end visibility, allows for proactive monitoring, and improves the user's experience."
"We are using it on most of our platforms, which are on a big scale and across the globe."
"Whether it is the server, database, network, or application, Dynatrace provides a consistent unambiguous view of performance."
"Smartscape is a wonderful feature. I'm really loving it because there's no need for you to go deep into an analysis and go in to see where we are going wrong. You go to Smartscape, pass all the connections, and it will tell you the root cause."
"It gives you a great level of detail into whatever the issue is: Using troubleshooting and getting to the root cause."
"The installation and configuration were very straightforward and nice."
"The alerting mechanism where you get millions of dependencies analyzed, in one alert or "problem" as Dynatrace calls it."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."
"I have found it sometimes a bit difficult to trace the transaction all the way through to the application. I'm not sure if that problem is on the database side or on the application side, but that would be something that I would like to be improved. The traceability from the application to the database, sometimes, is a bit of a challenge. If you're using AppDynamics, with the Java agent, for instance, you need to be able to trace it through."
"An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side."
"The product's drawback is the licensing pricing. It could be better."
"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."
"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."
"The solution needs to support IBM products."
"The scalability could be improved."
"I would like a testing module focused on quality gates."
"I would like to see Dynatrace be more user-friendly. Sometimes there are too many options to use from, which is good, but it can become confusing on how to proceed."
"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."
"We do not have any web monitoring with Dynatrace."
"I would like to see internal synthetic tests in the next release, which is already on the roadmap."
"There should be more visibility for network performance monitoring. There should be more metrics for things like 5G and IoT. That would be the main thing because they've moved more to mobile performance rather than fixed networks."
"C language integration requires manual implementation through the SDK, which is rather difficult and time consuming."
"We have had problems with our middle layer application implementation."
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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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