We compared Dynatrace and Splunk Enterprise Security across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Dynatrace is highly regarded for its advanced AI engine and ability to identify infrastructure automatically. It also offers session replay and impressive visualization features. Splunk Enterprise Security stands out for its efficiency, extensive integration options, and powerful search functionality.
Room for Improvement: Some Dynatrace reviewers feel the learning curve is a little steep, and the documentation could be clearer. Users say that Dynatrace should offer more security options and improve integration with other tools. Splunk users recommended improvements in AI capabilities, user-friendliness, and analytics.
Service and Support: Users generally found Dynatrace's customer service to be satisfactory, but some said that the response times and documentation have room for improvement. While some users found Splunk support to be responsive and helpful, others reported slow response times and a lack of expertise.
Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup is simple, efficient, and requires minimal technical configuration. It takes a few hours at most. Some users thought Splunk Enterprise Security was easy to deploy, while others found it challenging and needed assistance from Splunk engineers or third-party integrators.
Pricing: Users say Dynatrace is expensive. Some noted that the licensing model is complicated and not transparent. Some said they struggled to accurately predict the number of units needed. Some users consider Splunk Enterprise Security to be expensive, but others said the price is reasonable. A few users expressed concerns about the cost of scaling up the solution and managing large volumes of data.
ROI: Dynatrace users said the solutions saved them money and reduced downtime. Users said that it’s challenging to calculate an ROI for Splunk Enterprise Security, and the return varies depending on individual circumstances. While some users have observed a substantial ROI, others have not actively explored or been engaged in ROI conversations.
"It is useful for analytics, web performance, end-to-end coverage of a user experience, and database analytics. It is absolutely a monitoring tool that is worth having. The visibility that it provides is a unique feature of this product."
"Easy to install and start using it."
"Simple classic but effective UI (unlike some modern UI's out there that have too much white-space)"
"We have configured the alerting so the error or the incident will go to the respective team. Then, the team can contact the user once they see that they have an issue and ask if they can them resolve the issue."
"They have quick answers for scalability."
"Dynatrace helps us to improve overall performance and allows us to detect the root cause of an outbreak on our systems."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can drill down to the code level and get a breadth of information."
"The fact that Splunk is a platform and not just a SIEM solution is a key benefit."
"It is easy to use, and easy to implement."
"The technical support is among the best in the market."
"I am satisfied with the support."
"The search function for spam is like a google search. You just enter and it will quickly show you the results."
"The additional vendors we've brought on board, particularly the elastic, have been quite beneficial."
"I like the Splunk dashboard and search engine."
"The correlation searches are most valuable just because we are able to do things like RBA."
"The pricing of the product could be improved."
"We would like the AI to produce more scientific data with less configuration."
"Needs support for more technologies."
"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."
"Enterprise Synthetic of DC RUM can be made more robust."
"They should make hooks into some of the more modern performance testing tools a little easier. I think that would go a long way."
"We are waiting on the new features to see how they perform."
"We have a couple of one page apps that it has a problem with because it doesn't call to the server all the time. I believe part of that is taken care of in the next version."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"When you get into large amounts of data, Splunk can get pretty slow. This is the same on-premise or AWS, it doesn't matter. The way that they handle large data sets could be improved."
"Search head clustering is often temperamental in its current state and should be improved, replaced by something better, or be reverted to search head pooling."
"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."
"Splunk has a steeper learning curve, making it feel less user-friendly."
"My biggest struggle with Splunk in general is memorizing all the commands. If I want to know which users have logged in between certain hours, I cannot write that query out. It would be helpful to have AI so that I can explain in simple terms what I want and then the search gives that back to me. I am waiting for that."
"We are waiting for Dashboard Studio to mature a little bit more. There are some things that we are using with Classic Dashboards which have not yet made it to Dashboard Studio. We are waiting for that."
"I haven't found a way for me to create my own plugins and integrate them into Splunk, but this isn't necessarily a limitation; it could simply be a lack of knowledge on my part."
Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 341 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in Log Management with 240 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. 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 Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel and Datadog. See our Dynatrace vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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As far as I know, Splunk is used as a syslog system only and DynaTrace is an application monitoring system. So you will use Splunk to collect events/logs from servers and devices and you will use DynaTrace to monitor applications and send alerts to end users, provide dashboards etc.
Dynatrace is for APM / ITOM solution. Dynatrace trace can inspect the .net, Java, PHP Program. Splunk is for Log management and SIEM which Dynatrace does not focus on.
They are two different function products.
We use Dynatrace for deep dive transaction tracking to find performance issues of applications. We use Splunk various log analysis tasks mainly in the area of security.
It really depends on the use case. Dynatrace can actually enrich the data collected by Splunk and Dynatrace has an out of the box connection to Splunk. If the goal is application performance and end-user analytics then Dynatrace is the better solution. If the goal is security and threat analytics then Splunk is the right solution.
Splunk and Dynatrace are two different solutions. Most organizations use both of them. Splunk can aggregate logs from Dynatrace. It also depends on what is the purpose of the usage. If you intend to measure end to end application performance and the application logs are instrumenting the metrics, then Splunk alone can do the job. It also allows you to correlate other events like firewall, network and other dependent applications/services.
Dynatrace and Splunk are two different solutions that provide insight from different perspectives. Dynatrace is installed on servers/applications to provide APM and Splunk is more a log and data analytics solution that processes logs (traps/syslog/Windows Events/Firewall Logs/etc.).
Dynatrace provides application performance management (APM), artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps), cloud infrastructure monitoring, and digital experience management (DEM), with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. The company's services include performance management software for programs running on-premises and in the cloud. This software manages the availability and performance of software applications and the impact on user experience in the form of deep transaction tracing, synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and network monitoring.
Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
Splunk makes machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.
Ref - from experience, their own websites and other related sites.