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.
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"Has helped us to increase customer acquisitions and reduce revenue leakage."
"The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI."
"The User experience monitor is a real added value."
"Auto alerting and reporting on the application and the infrastructure aid us in delivering our service with greater value."
"It highlights areas that we could be doing better and increases our performance metrics by showing the biggest pain points."
"This solution has helped our organization on multiple occasions. The synthetic monitor came in particularly handy."
"Improved visibility on performance and application issues."
"It was delivered when we wanted it and has performed exceptionally well."
"Helps us to shorten down the time for triaging an issue."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications."
"I was hands on in the setup of the solution. Initially, it seemed a little daunting."
"Dashboarding and having different templates available for more business reporting, or even other metrics, would be useful."
"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."
"We are waiting on the new features to see how they perform."
"Need better mapping to true business service rather than purely technical monitoring."
"A useful addition for known issues would be the ability to automatically perform certain activities as a first attempt to resolve issues which are creating a problem."
"The web version of the client interface needs more features that are in the Java-based thick client."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 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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