We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Elastic Observability 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 favored for its comprehensive features, real-user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring capabilities. It also has a highly praised AI engine for root cause analysis and offers good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications.
"We have been using it to find bugs in our production environment."
"This monitoring capability gives us the ability to measure the end-user experience."
"This is a stable solution."
"In the AppMon, offering, currently, the most valuable feature is the PurePath analysis, being able to deep-dive into call chains."
"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."
"It is a product that helps developers, testers, and operations to make sure their applications work quickly and reliably."
"Dynatrace Appmon provides us with the ability to proactively identify issues within our systems which could be impacting our customers."
"Reduced MTTR, thanks to smart problem detection and automated root cause analysis."
"Elastic APM has plenty of features, such as the Elastic server for Kibana and many additional plugins. It's a comprehensive tool when used as a logging platform."
"Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds."
"The tool's most valuable feature is centralized logging. Elastic Common Search helps us to search for the logs across the organization."
"The solution has been stable in our usage."
"We use AppDynamics and Elastic. The reason why we're using Elastic APM is because of the license count. It's very favorable compared to AppDynamics. It's inexpensive; it's economical."
"It has always been a stable solution."
"I have built a mini business intelligence system based on Elastic Observability."
"The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions."
"Definitely something to be improved is that OneAgent runs as a route, and not all applications want to run as route. Part of the problem is different technology companies will have various rules, regulations, and policies around what can run as a route."
"The user interface is complicated, but recent web versions are getting better all the time."
"We do not have any web monitoring with Dynatrace."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"Sometimes it is hard to find the right setting for what you want to change."
"Data streaming and dashboard loading can be improved to reduce dashboard latency."
"It definitely needs HA, because we have so many applications that are dependent on AppMon that it has been deemed critical. Any downtime, it just affects so many users. So that's one of our key asks for the future."
"I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace."
"The auto-discovery isn't nearly as good. That's a big portion of it. When you drop the agent onto the JVM and you're trying to figure things out, having to go through and manually do all that is cumbersome."
"Elastic Observability’s price could be improved."
"Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira."
"There could be more low-code features included in the product."
"In the future, Elastic APM needs a portfolio iTool. They can provide an easy way to develop the custom UI for Kibana."
"More web features could be added to the product."
"The cost must be made more transparent."
"If we had some pre-defined templates for observability that we could start using right away after deploying it – instead of having to build or to change some of the dashboards – that would be helpful."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Elastic Observability is rated 7.8. 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 Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Grafana, whereas Elastic Observability is most compared with New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor, Sentry and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Elastic Observability report.
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