We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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 the preferred option. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"We have been able to monitor our applications more accurately."
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"The most valuable features of AppDynamics is the scalability and monitoring."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"PurePath view of methods and the call stack are extremely valuable for troubleshooting and performance review."
"Enables my performance engineer to recreate a problem and give the developers what's happening, where to go look, all the information they need to be able to find what the root cause is."
"One thing it helped with: We should never get traffic from outside the U.S. and we were getting traffic from Europe, and that was a problem. We found out what caused it. Dynatrace helped us find that information out. We wouldn't have found it otherwise."
"It simplifies a lot of the processes of performance tuning client systems before they go live."
"We scaled from 300 agents to 800 agents in six months. There were no issues at the server level, which is pretty good."
"UEM (RUM): User Experience Management (real user monitoring) puts you in "user's seat" and gives you insight into how they experience the application. Often, this gives a totally different view than just watching the backend calls."
"It helps us get to the resolution quicker, and potentially the root cause, and at least understand what is happening for future identification."
"RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and the PurePaths, where you can see the stack trace, are helpful in finding problems."
"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"Our environment is very complicated anyway, so the initial setup was a bit of a struggle, but only because we have so many applications and JVMs that we have been working on for long time."
"It needs a better way to figure out how to dig deeper into the details, e.g., sometimes we have to wade through multiple logs, etc."
"We are still struggling a bit with finding an answer quickly."
"We have had problems with our middle layer application implementation."
"I need more experience."
"The user interface for the management functions is not particularly intuitive for even the most common features."
"If you want to see a month's data, it keeps on spinning. Here is an improvement which needs to happen, which is the case with all applications or tools. There is a lot of data, and either we have to change the way we are logging or the application needs to be enhanced."
"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 153 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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 is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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