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.
"The technical support has always been responsive."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"We have used Dynatrace in our performance testing environments to get ahead of issues before they make it into production."
"Dynatrace is an extremely helpful APM solution in large, complex environments, whenever we need to have an integrated vision of our users, infrastructure, and applications."
"What I like about it, is how it auto-discovers everything rapidly; within a matter of seconds you get to see the business transaction and how it's mapped within the product itself."
"Dynatrace has designed its agents to capture limited stack traces for each transaction executed."
"We can see issues that occur, sometimes before the clients do. Before we have client (or end user) calls for issues, we are able to start troubleshooting and even resolve those issues. We can quickly identify the root cause and impact of the issues as they occur, and this is very helpful for providing the best client experience."
"Support from Dynatrace is excellent. They are always on hand for any queries, demos, and/or issues."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Observability is the text search."
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"The product has connectors to many services."
"We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it."
"The ability to ensure that the data is searchable and maintainable is highly valuable for our purposes."
"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."
"Custom reporting is still missing."
"The AppMon 6.5 is problematic in configuring. It is little finicky. When we configured the JVM, it did not work."
"They should make hooks into some of the more modern performance testing tools a little easier. I think that would go a long way."
"This solution needs more powerful database monitoring capabilities."
"I think they're working on even more integration from external third party input, but that is ongoing. So the faster it's there the better. Clock monitoring is one of these areas where improvements can be made."
"Product reporting still needs improvement."
"I would like a testing module focused on quality gates."
"Elastic Observability needs to have better standardization, logging, and schema."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"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."
"There is room for improvement regarding its APM capabilities."
"The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration of hot, warm, and cold zones for data storage. Additionally, managing log retention policies adds further complexity. The solution's pricing also needs to be cheaper."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
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, Datadog, Azure Monitor and Sentry. See our Dynatrace vs. Elastic Observability report.
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