We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Alluvio Aternity 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 over Alluvio Aternity due to its more comprehensive features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities, as well as AI capabilities for automating incident alerts and topology visualization. While Alluvio Aternity provides valuable data on machine health and performance, users suggest that it could benefit from more customizable reporting options and detailed performance counters.
"The data collected by the agents on each end point is the most valuable feature for us."
"Other features we use heavily are the WiFi analyzer, the Skype for Business analyzer, and the troubleshooting functionalities. We also use the Device Health quite religiously here for troubleshooting devices that are unhealthy, when we're talking about things like high CPU or memory consumption, or file system problems within the users' workstations."
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"The data the solution provides is valuable to us; we can see the health of the machines, how they are performing, and what might be causing issues on a particular machine."
"The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes."
"The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."
"Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application."
"The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month."
"The PurePaths are valuable because that's where somebody who is a non-developer can figure out where the problem is and send appropriate PurePaths, clean charts, or even the link to the developer. The developer can then look at it and figure out exactly where the problem is, this is the piece of code that took the longest time, and then resolve it."
"With the Agentless monitoring and ability to create custom plugins, we've been able to transform the tool not just into a great APM solution but a really good enterprise monitoring solution too."
"The PurePath feature enables you to see the path from click to database query."
"The major improvement was the ability to find errors immediately and predict future failures, or when resources reach the maximum capacity."
"The vendor team who did the setup was very good. They sent a very skillful resource for the setup."
"Dynatrace is stable."
"It has improved our critical incident response, exposing critical issues impacting the environment and our ability to respond to those events prior to client impact as well as resolving those events more quickly. We have use cases where we have studied a 70 percent improvement for response times in an occurring event as well as future reoccurrences being improved."
"Dynatrace is capable of following all user actions across all monitored infrastructure, even to systems not monitored, but interconnected."
"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."
"I want more reporting around asset management, with greater flexibility and customization ability."
"Some of the dashboarding and reporting on the analytics side could be improved. I think they realize it. Obviously, some of the desktop monitoring metrics always can be improved."
"I think the workflow needs improvement"
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"Their technical support should be improved in terms of response time. Its stability should also be better. We are currently using version 10, and its stability is not so high. The server crashes from time to time and needs to be restarted. Sometimes, you also have problems with applications."
"When it comes to a lot of the features that I would want, they will tell you they are in their SaaS version, which we don't use... They put all the new features on the SaaS solution and that's where you get the latest and greatest stuff... Why not have those features available for on-prem users?"
"Aternity does provide performance numbers, the data. However, it doesn't tell you what you can do about it. It just presents the facts. How to interpret the data, and how to draw conclusions from a lot of the data, requires knowledge and experience. That's the part that I would hope Aternity can continue to explore and give us that kind of capability."
"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."
"We had one issue when we tried to enter one agent and it just does not work. We got to work with the highest level of support, but it took a while to get there."
"Richer, deeper partner channel: It needs to expand and deepen the business use cases, where their solutions can help."
"Either use less system resources and be faster or use more resources to pre-compute the PurePath on recent X minutes of data"
"It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications."
"The solution could improve by allowing more dashboards customization. This would allow us to monitor the metric better."
"It needs container log monitoring."
"The GUI has the most room for improvement. Sometimes, it can be a little cumbersome to find things and be able to create your own views, or be able to dig in and understand where things are."
Alluvio Aternity is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". 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". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Dynatrace report.
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We did a trial of the Dynatrace vs AppDynamics vs New Relic Real User
Monitoring tools and based on this we selected New Relic, mainly because of
their powerful Insights tool that easily allows you to create your own
dashboards / alert using a variant of SQL.
Since we acquired the RUM tool (Browser) we have trialled their APM tool
which we are currently appraising vs our existing CA APM tool (Introscope)
- early signs are encouraging for New Relic.
After 9 months we have found the New Relic tools that we use to be very
useful and they have excellent post implementation support.
Being SAAS only has not been an issue, and for example on Black Friday
their tools did not slowdown at all.
Hello,
Thank you all for the very kind and informative comments.
Some ideas regarding the requirement list.
Looking at a high level, the requirement list will contain:
- This is strategic tool, so go after the big/leading names.
- Easy remote deployment& management.
- Quick learning curve and strong local support.
- Flexible& competitive pricing model.
Technically speaking:
- Client side application level support: Browser based, Mobile Native App., Smart (Fat..) desktop
applications (mainly in Microsoft environment - .Net , C#).
- Client side Operating Systems: Mobile (iOS, Android), Desktop (Win7 and up).
- Server side Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
- Virtualization: Microsoft, VMware,Citrix.
- Various server side applications (DB,ESB, HDFS....).
-Features:
Easy to set thresholds and automatic "trigger to action" capabilities.
Management console that can show information from a different customers in an easy way.
Another question I struggled with:
How do you deal with Information Security issues of remote connection to the client's production environments (both technical and business agreement aspects) ?
Best,
Avi
Avi,
How are you ?
I am Elad and I am the COO at Correlsense.
HQ in Boston and R&D site in Israel we have a very extensive partnership program that we have signed with companies that have the offering you describe here.
Would be happy to talk : eladk@correlsense.com
I am looking forward to talking to you.
Regards,
Hi Avi,
A lot of technical aspects had been discussed, but in my experience the most valued features include>
Multi Tenancy
Service Level Management Module is mandatory which supports service, calendars, offerings, etc.
Another great feature is the monitoring tool, which must support agent and agentless deployment
The thing is:
Measure -> Manage -> Improve
Hi,
What about Correlsense?
Thier APM product is called Sharepath and they are based in Israel.
Good luck
Hi Avi,
I AM biased working for CA Technologies but have you considered us?
We have recently released some highly innovative updates to our APM suite and work with quite a number of MSPs globally - I think you would be pleasantly surprised if we had a chance to take you through our capabilities.
Kind Regards
Paul Casaneanu
CA Technologies
Hi Avi,
My name is Gil and I've been working with APM solutions since 2005 when it just began. In my experience, it is most important for you to define your requirements from the APM platform, besides its pricing, before starting to evaluate solutions.
Let me give you some examples:
- Do you need to provide useful information for developers when there is an application problem and pin point the problem ?
- Do you need to monitor the full end to end user experience of global customers accessing sites and mobile apps for your customers and also gain some insights about the specific user session ?
- What technologies are required to be monitored ?
- Can you install anything on the client machines (if not - for example Aternity is not on the table) ?
- Do you need some auto discovery capabilities with regards to architectures, data flows, dynamic baselines, etc. ?
So you see, there isn't a simple answer. That being said, from my experience in the past 5 years, I found the Dynatrace platform the be the most complete one, and suited for both small and large companies. Additionally, the fact that it has 750 people in R&D makes me sleep well at night when my customers are using this platform. I don't have a hands on experience with AppD or Atternity, but have seen the customers comparing Dynatrace to them and heard about their reasons for making a choice.
Hope this helps,
Gil
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is another APM vendor you might consider. HPE is an innovator in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and that rating is based upon advanced user experience monitoring capability as well as a wide range of SLA management features – both critical for an MSP.
HPE AppPulse APM excels at User Experience Monitoring. Its capabilities extend beyond just identifying the user action that precedes a problem into mapping out the entire “User Flow”. This enables you to see all of the transaction steps that the user follows to initiate their transaction.
Since there are usually multiple flows that a user can choose from while starting from the same initial action, so that you’re able to determine if any of you user flow paths are more problematic than others. Listing the initiating user action alone, as most of the other products do, isn’t enough to show you which transactions the action has impacted and which are fine.
This creates a 3D view of user interaction versus the more 2D picture that pointing to the user action provided by competitive offerings creates.
Another very strong capability for MSPs that HPE APM provides is SLA management. HPE AppPulse Active provides a range of SLA alerts, notifications, and reports to enable you to continuously monitor SLA compliance for all of the app environments under management.
These SLA management capabilities along with scripting capability based on HPE LoadRunner TruClient and VuGen technologies and allows load test to be run against apps in production using the same protocols used in QA/Test.
HPE Mobile Center, which is part of HPE’s ADM software suite along with LoadRunner and StormRunner, enables you to capture test scripts directly from actual mobile devices and then use them for pre-production load testing as well as within AppPulse Active APM in production.
Overall, this provides the most comprehensive range of performance management and testing tools available to enable you to ensure optimum service for your customers. You can also offer them additional service capabilities to enable them to support “bring your own device”, web apps and enterprise app monitoring.
Most of the HPE APM products are offered as SaaS offerings to make them very affordable for your SMB customers to whom overall cost is critical. They also offer very intuitive point and click web interfaces, which makes them easy for Line of Business users to use.
Best of all, all HPE APM products are developed in Israel. Our team there would be glad to assist you in implementing your MSP programs. We also have numerous reference customers in Israel to whom you could speak to obtain their insights about HPE APM products. That can also enable rapid local support which might be critical for ensuring your business success.
Tom Fisher
HPE APM
tfisher@hpe.com