We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics 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 ability to use PurePath in analytics is definitely the most valuable feature. It helps you pinpoint issues, then develop and focus them in the right way."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"We can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database."
"We use it to monitor over a 1000 servers in AWS."
"Agentless Transaction Analysis allows my team to granularly decompose complex operations and flows for business applications."
"Our company gets quick response times and qualified responses from technical support, so that is good."
"We can report and monitor on specific use cases which could not be monitored with SAP or other tooling."
"The deployment configuration and everything is simple. It is not that complicated."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Needs a clearer view for Smartscape."
"Configuration could be simpler."
"Regarding features, it would be good if there would be some features regarding app security."
"This solution needs more powerful database monitoring capabilities."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"We have had some struggles with scaling. We were on AppMon, and AppMon has its own monolithic drawbacks."
"The functionality needs improvement."
"As we move into using more AWS native architectures, it should support everything that we want to do. We don't want to adopt another tool."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while SolarWinds AppOptics 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 SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog, New Relic and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Dynatrace vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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