We compared Dynatrace and Splunk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Dynatrace's ability to track real users, AI capabilities, proactive feedback, and cost savings. It also provides a comprehensive view of infrastructure topology and microservices interaction. Users find it easy to manage, with a user-friendly interface and scalability. Dynatrace needs improvements in testing modules, cost reduction display, accessibility, user interface, and time zone handling. Despite some difficulties in pricing and licensing, users have seen a positive return on investment with Dynatrace.
"The most valuable feature is that we can see every database call executed from Java applications."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, UI, and collected data. Its deployment is really easy. In just a few hours, you can have a very good outcome, and you can see everything, which is very valuable. It collects a good amount of data."
"Overall, it has provided improved stability to our system both within prod and non-prod environments."
"Dynatrace can look into application transactions at the packet level, which pretty much relieves us of the work of manually collecting, analyzing, summarizing, and presenting the data, as we had done in the past."
"It has given visibility to how an end user utilizes and experiences our service offerings."
"I am primarily doing DC RUM, so on that side there are a lot of awesome abilities where people who can't implement an agent are able to still monitor a lot of their apps and decodes."
"Dynatrace Appmon provides us with the ability to proactively identify issues within our systems which could be impacting our customers."
"We can see each session, end-to-end, and discover issues."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Ease of use could be improved because it can be hard to determine how you made it to the screen you are on and how to get back to it later."
"They could have a better user interface, better automation, better support for cloud-based, and SaaS applications."
"I still don't see the full depth of database metrics for database performance management. For example, I use Oracle Enterprise Manager and I use a type of access that provides me a lot of metrics and meaningful ways to evaluate database performance. That is something I don't see in Dynatrace yet."
"When compared with other tools, the experience needs improvement. I would like them to build out the interactions and make them friendlier."
"I would say that this solution's reports are lacking a little bit, and because of this, you have to rely on API to fetch and pull data. I think they could have done a bit of a better job by providing a more user-friendly search from a reporting perspective."
"For the user, for the customer, they expect a solution to be not so expensive."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"The AI is not that intelligent and there are different places where it could be even more automated."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Grafana. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk APM report.
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