We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Azure Monitor 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 a better option than Azure Monitor, as it offers more advanced monitoring features such as real user tracking, AIOps automation, Kubernetes module, and session replay, along with a user-friendly interface, good AI capabilities, and easy deployment. In contrast, Azure Monitor is easy to set up and maintain but lacks visualization and integration with third-party services, and needs more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence for event correlation. Dynatrace also provides better ROI through cost savings from automation and decreased mean time to identification and repair.
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"This tool helps us gather information from all hosts and services, then cross reference the information."
"In my experience, Dynatrace is scalable."
"One thing it helped with: We should never get traffic from outside the U.S. and we were getting traffic from Europe, and that was a problem. We found out what caused it. Dynatrace helped us find that information out. We wouldn't have found it otherwise."
"It helps DevOps find all its problems easily and analyzes performance problems."
"I can get everything on a single page."
"It helps us get to the resolution quicker, and potentially the root cause, and at least understand what is happening for future identification."
"Provides bespoke dashboards and reports which help our business to grow."
"I am able to customize my dashboard based on the test requirement and it helps me to focus on the area that really needs close monitoring."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"It would be nice to get the AI piece into AppMon."
"I have not had very positive experiences with tech support in the last year. I found them to be arrogant, rude, not solving my problems, and not interested in solving my problems."
"Setting up the thresholds and alerting, it is complicated to understand their use cases."
"This solution would be improved with the addition of annotations for automated custom metrics creation."
"The products or company go through a rebrand/renaming about once a year, which creates some confusion with our customers."
"I would like the ability to export a user session into csv format. (I am aware that I can export a user session via a webhook)."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
"I am unable to use Synthetic to automate user login."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Observability. See our Azure Monitor vs. Dynatrace report.
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