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."Some of the troubleshooting features for development, the PurePath technology in AppMon, are valuable. The dashboarding gives us some good insight into some fluctuations in some of the application areas."
"Dynatrace alerts are based on deviations from the reference metrics which are constantly collected."
"Support from Dynatrace is excellent. They are always on hand for any queries, demos, and/or issues."
"It scales well. We are going to be able to use it for everything we need. "
"It provides the whole perspective in a single place when trying to guide the right people to go to the right solution at any given point in time."
"End-to-end visibility of the applications, since we have them instrumented. Understanding where the hotspots are in the applications."
"We use the Dynatrace AI to assess impact. Because it links to real users, it is generally pretty correct in terms of when it raises an incident. We determine the severity by how many users it is affecting, then we use it as business justification to put a priority on that alert."
"We found Dynatrace is a robust tool which provides pretty good monitoring for a PCF environment"
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"My customer previously validated every file and it would take almost 15-20 minutes for a document. They used to randomly select and test only 100 out of the thousands, maybe 85,000, files, to pick up sampling. Each file would take around 20 to 25 minutes, so we were not able to do it manually, but with the help of Selenium, we were able to test all the files in two days. It saves a lot of time."
"I like the record and playback features. We also appreciate that it's not just writing on a script that we create. While we were browsing our web application, it automatically records all the clicks and movements of points. We also appreciate the fact that it provides screenshots of everything in the output."
"Ability to integrate with every other tool."
"The most valuable aspect of Selenium is that it gives you the flexibility to customize or write your own code, your own features, etc. It's not restricted by licensing."
"It supports most of the mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, IE and etc."
"It supports many external plugins, and because it's a Java-based platform, it's language-independent. You can use Java, C#, Python, etc."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about seven months."
"They could have a better user interface, better automation, better support for cloud-based, and SaaS applications."
"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."
"Configuration could be simpler."
"The thing that is preventing us from moving forward with Dynatrace right now is that we can't tag our customer traffic with a customizable tag. All of our students have a unique identifier and in AppMon we tag that and we can search by it very easily and it's very useful. But in Dynatrace, you can't yet customize and find people like that, so that's really preventing us. I heard that it's being worked on but I'm not sure when it's coming out."
"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."
"C language integration requires manual implementation through the SDK, which is rather difficult and time consuming."
"There are lots of features to share information, but we need to learn to leverage that, both on the web browser and on the mobile app."
"It needs container log monitoring."
"I don't have that much experience with it, but I know that Selenium is more used for websites. It is not for testing desktop applications, which is a downside of it. It can support desktop applications more."
"We'd like to see some more image management in future releases."
"For now, I guess Selenium could add some other features like object communications for easy expansion."
"The initial setup of Selenium HQ is difficult in many areas, such as the framework."
"Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way."
"Sometimes we face challenges with Selenium HQ. There are third party tools that we use, for example for reading the images, that are not easy to plug in. The third party add-ons are difficult to get good configuration and do not have good support. I would like to see better integration with other products."
"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."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 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 Automation Anywhere (AA).
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