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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Dynatrace and AppDynamics Database Monitoring compete in the database monitoring category. Despite both having strong offerings, Dynatrace is noted for its AI-driven automation and customer support, while AppDynamics has advanced analytics and better ROI.

What features are offered by Dynatrace in comparison to AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Dynatrace offers automated problem detection, AI-driven insights, and robust customer support. AppDynamics includes advanced analytical capabilities, detailed performance metrics, and excellent integration with other systems.

What areas of improvement can be found in Dynatrace in comparison to AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Dynatrace could improve reporting capabilities, enhance customization options, and simplify its configuration. AppDynamics needs improvements in scalability, better customer service responsiveness, and more streamlined configuration processes.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Dynatrace in comparison to AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Dynatrace offers a smooth deployment process and strong customer service. AppDynamics also supports good deployment, but customer service has mixed reviews, needing improvements in responsiveness.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Dynatrace in comparison to AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Dynatrace is costlier but justified by its robust features and support. AppDynamics, though expensive, offers better ROI due to advanced analytics, making it a more cost-effective option in the long run.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Database Monito...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

344

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (4th), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st), AIOps (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dynatrace is 12.4%, down from 14.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Nuno Rosa

Principal Consultant at Infosys

Has an easy initial setup process and has valuable database performance monitoring features

In one of the scenarios, a retail company encountered transaction failure issues. The problem was not with the card or payment system but the database operations. By utilizing AppDynamics, the team traced end-to-end transactions and identified a database latency problem. Monitoring the entire end-to-end system allows us to pinpoint performance issues in the database. Tracking the user journey helped us identify the issues between the middleware and the database. The topology view feature helps in effective monitoring. However, this feature was developed six years ago and still needs to be updated. The application needs broader improvements and reshaping for this particular area. Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases. During development, it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. It detects and resolves performance issues, ensuring database availability and minimizing downtime. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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Manish Ved

Lead Infrastructure Domain Architect (Systems) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Solution has a useful AI engine, but the reports could be a bit better

We are typically about a version or two behind. We are on the managed solution. Our model of deployment is on-premises. I would say there are a couple of thousand users of this solution in our company. We are also planning on increasing the usage as our apps migrate to the cloud. I would advise other people looking into solutions, to do their homework beforehand and not assume that by deploying all the tools everything will automatically work, so there's still a lot of configuration involved. I would rate this solution as a whole an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."

"The solution is very, very stable. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches on the system."

"Data monitoring is the most valuable feature."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring provides a single view of the problem and helps identify the guilty database query, which is unique compared to other solutions."

"In my experience, it's easy to use. There's nothing complex to learn or fear. You can quickly adapt to it without the need for extensive training."

"The most valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring are you can configure the performance and see in real-time what is exactly happening with the applications. Additionally, the dashboards are good."

"The good thing with AppDynamics Databases is that it will give you a pretty good overview of the data, all the database-like tables, long-running queries, jobs running on the databases, and the queries that are taking more time. So, it's at a deeper level with all the database functionalities, and you will get that information. So, it's a pretty good tool in that sense."

"The solution is great for database monitoring. You don't have to install an agent on the database. You just install the server to a database agent. It's a good product for some database administration if you don't want to install an agent on the database for security."

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"This solution has helped us to improve application performance and reduce issue-impact with faster resolutions."

"Provides more insight into detecting what the problem is with some of our applications."

"Often, we are busy working on other tasks when something goes wrong with the site. Getting timely alerts is very important to our needs as a business."

"The User experience monitor is a real added value."

"The best part of Dynatrace is that the tool is very lightweight and very easy to install."

"We like the alerting feature. For example, my applications are going out on some thresholds. So I get alerts, according to the thresholds I set. I get that data via emails as notifications."

"The user interface is like a type of dashboard. You can use the tool as an end user into the tool interface, which is good."

"Some of the main benefits are being able to quickly identify when transactions start to slow or run into issues, or hiccups if you will."

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Cons

"I would like the solution to be more customizable to meet our client's requirements."

"The application monitoring needs improvement. It needs to be easier for someone who isn't a proficient developer."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."

"The application end of AppDynamics Database Monitoring needs to improve by checking which applications consume licenses."

"An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side."

"I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility."

"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."

"The product requires high maintenance."

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"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."

"DevOps plugin monitoring tools need improvement."

"When it comes to monitoring, we did the integration with VMware vCenter, and we were able to see some good stuff. The VMware vCenter integration was really great, but what we really missed was the integration with the network management stuff such as Cisco ACI. We wanted to see integration in that area, but it was not provided by Dynatrace. So, the main feature for us is integration with things like Cisco ACI. If they can bring that one in, with vCenter in there, it would be a total solution. It would be absolutely incomparable to anything else in the market."

"This tool had a feature of doing load test in production or lower environment, which was shut down earlier this year. We are missing that feature badly and we definitely want to see that feature back."

"The analytics feature provides us some information, but is limited for now. We want to see how we can consume the data further down and have analytics guys look at the datacenter information."

"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."

"It needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically."

"I would also like to see it baselining more metrics out-of-the-box. We have a lot of rich data, but if someone says, "Well how did that look last week?" If you're looking at a problem and you see, for example, a long SQL statement, is that the root cause, or is it always slow. it's difficult to get historical data."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring requires a license for database monitoring and other features, while Dynatrace provides monitoring and other features out of the box without additional costs. Sometimes this makes it more challenging to pitch AppDynamics Database Monitoring to customers, especially because you need to buy a separate license. As an implementer, I have yet to learn about the pricing for AppDynamics Database Monitoring. Pricing is taken care of by the sales team."

"It could be a bit lower, but looking at the scalability, functionality, and other things, you can understand why AppDynamics is so expensive as compared to some of the cheaper products that don't have that full single pane of glass they've got. Dynatrace has got three different elements that you need to log into just to get a full view, which is not so good, and because of that, it is a bit cheaper."

"I give the price a five out of ten."

"In terms of pricing, I feel that when you compare the benefits that we get to the price that we paid, it is reasonable."

"We have a license-based solution. That means you need a license for each server you monitor."

"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."

"One of the main downsides to the solution is its cost."

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"The product is definitely worth taking a look at. Be aware that it is probably more pricey than other options on the market, but there are a lot of capabilities. Dynatrace has an eye toward the future and the computing and monitoring needs that we are gonna need for the cloud. "

"Dynatrace is the most expensive APM that we sell, compared to competitors' products. The license pricing could be improved. My customers pay for licensing yearly."

"The pricing is a little high, but still cheaper than competitors because Dynatrace at least has pay-as-you-go. Others do not. However, the pricing is confusing. I wish it was more simplified when trying to price out moving to a yearly contract."

"Licensing is a bit complicated for Dynatrace, and pricing is dependent on how much your organization invests."

"Always gives good ROI and total cost of ownership."

"The pricing and licensing are very expensive."

"Time to value was surprisingly fast."

"It is quite expensive for startups."

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Financial Services Firm

38%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Educational Organization

35%

Financial Services Firm

17%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

The price is not cheap, however, considering the benefits and the price ratio, I would rate it nine out of ten.

What needs improvement with AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Based on my experience, some databases like Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB require a little bit of enhancement as they are newer and not as widely used as other databases. The limitations are o...

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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AppDynamics

Overview

More than half of application performance bottlenecks originate in the database, but most application teams have little or no visibility into database performance. With AppDynamics' database performance management product, you get 100% visibility into application performance, from the browser to the database.

Key Benefits

Visualize end-to-end application performance, from the browser to the database
Get alerts when database thresholds are violated
Monitor key performance metrics like top users, programs, SQL, objects and more.
See execution plans for slow SQL to isolate performance bottlenecks

Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.

Dynatrace offers an all-in-one automated artificial intelligence solution that brings together application performance, cloud and infrastructure, and digital experience monitoring. Dynatrace accelerates performance-driven results through operations, development, and business teams with a shared metrics platform. In addition, users are provided a full-stack monitoring experience with three patented technologies:

Smartscape - visualization mechanism that maps the totality of everything working in your environment and detects any casual dependencies between your applications, processes, websites, services, hosts, cloud infrastructure, and networks.
OneAgent - a technology that analyzes, gathers ,and unifies all business performance metrics throughout every layer of your technology stack.
PurePath Technology - code-level context and timings are captured from the mainframe to the cloud for all end-to-end transactions.

What does Dynatrace offer?

Dynatrace redefines how organizations monitor their digital ecosystems. The solution offers:

Cloud Automation: With AI engine Davis®, users can see the exact reason for problems and facilitate quick auto-remediation and intelligent cloud orchestration.
Application Security: With automated application vulnerability management, users can deliver applications faster and more securely.
Infrastructure Monitoring: Convenient broad visibility across your environments is provided with streamlined, automated infrastructure monitoring.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Optimize your applications, provide better support, and improve user experience with a combination of Real User Monitoring (RUM), Session Replay, and synthetic monitoring throughout your environment.
Applications and Microservices: For complex cloud environments, Dynatrace can automatically provide visibility and root-cause answers. It can also monitor microservices.
Digital Business Analytics: Get AI-powered, real-time answers to analytical business queries with KPIs and metrics that are already flowing through applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Dynatrace is the only solution that provides answers to organizations based on deep insight into each user, transaction, and organization's environment.

Barry P., a managing performance engineer at Medica Health Plans, writes, "With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place."

A consultant at a tech service company notes, "A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."

Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia

Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express

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