We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."Our company gets quick response times and qualified responses from technical support, so that is good."
"We use it to monitor over a 1000 servers in AWS."
"Real-time alerts allow us to address issues as they happen."
"The AppMon solution helped the operations guys to pinpoint one problem area and call the specific group, instead of everyone. The mean time to repair and the resource utilization time, they are totally reduced."
"With PurePath, I am able to find the root cause of the error or bug existing in our system."
"This solution has helped us to improve application performance and reduce issue-impact with faster resolutions."
"One of the features that sets this product apart from its competitors is that it generates a solution."
"The alerting mechanism where you get millions of dependencies analyzed, in one alert or "problem" as Dynatrace calls it."
"Language support - since it supports Java and other programming languages it is easy to integrate with other systems."
"The grids, as well as the selectors, are the most valuable features."
"The stability of the solution has been good, it is reliable we have not had any bugs."
"In general, I would say that the API set is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to create automatic tests that can replicate human behavior."
"Our platform runs into several thousand screens and a few thousand test cases, something which would typically take months to test manually. As of today, the entire process takes a little over two days to run."
"It is more stable in comparison to other solutions because they have quite some experience in the market."
"The solution is very flexible; there are different ways of using it. It's open-source and has a lot of support on offer."
"It could improve its GUI interface. The GUI design is too crowded and the icons are small. Sometimes I end up clicking on the wrong button."
"I do know that for the size of our organization, we're talking thousands of agents and hundreds of applications, it does get to the point where the servers themselves that house Dynatrace are at a point where, in some cases, they are just too big for one machine, since you have to have an entire application ecosystem all funnel into a single system."
"I was hands on in the setup of the solution. Initially, it seemed a little daunting."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"We need more AI in the product to avoid manual analysis."
"Improve Dynatrace for the following industries: telco, eCommerce, and banking."
"If Dynatrace is capturing everything in your application, it has to "sense" that information, and that sensing needs sensors which we have to include in our applications. The more you apply sensors - the more details you want - the more you have to increase the level of sensing. If I increase the level of sensing, my application's performance goes down, because something is there that is, again and again, checking each and every thing in the application. So that load on the applications increases. So, many times my applications used to crash because Dynatrace was working on them. We had to remove some sensing; either we had to reduce the sensing or we had to remove Dynatrace immediately."
"The flexibility when it comes to integrating with other tools is very low."
"I have found that at times the tool does not catch the class features of website content correctly. The product's AWS configuration is also hard."
"Coding skills are required to use Selenium, so it could be made more user-friendly for non-programmers."
"Selenium HQ doesn't support Windows-based applications, so we need to integrate with the third-party vendor. It would be great if Selenium could include Windows-based automation. You need to integrate it with a third-party tool if you want to upload any files. When we interact with a Windows application, we usually use Tosca."
"I would like to see a library of bomb files with an automated process and integration with Jenkins and Slack."
"For people that don't know about technology, maybe it's difficult to use."
"The solution can be improved by providing better reporting logs."
"In the beginning, we had issues with several test cases failing during regression. Over a period of time, we built our own framework around Selenium which helped us overcome of these issues."
"Could have additional readability and abstraction."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 102 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. 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 Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and OpenText Silk Test.
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