We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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 the preferred option. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"Being able to identify the blind spots. Before, we had lots of monitoring, but it was all very manual. You only monitor what you know about. As soon as we put Dynatrace in, it sprung to life, and we identified problems instantly."
"The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI."
"The ability to take each individual request and dive in to inspect what methods and calls are being made is extremely helpful."
"One aspect of development is the concept of continuous improvements. There are key screens in our applications. We get identification, through Dynatrace on its own, that these are our top ten slow preforming screens."
"The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
"The autodiscovery of service intercommunication has saved countless man hours and is dynamically updated when new services are added."
"By using Dynatrace, we can set up the agents to provide alerts at the JVM level."
"The web dashboard is very simple to use."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"I’d like to see better out-of-the-box visual reporting so that we can roll this up to management."
"The UI could use a little help."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"The worst part is that the AppDynamics SaaS Environment has a lot of downtimes, and AppDynamics, despite our efforts, does not give us any feedback on these downtimes/incidents."
"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."
"Documentation is slightly in error as far as directory set ups and guidance. We came to our own solution for distributing the disk loads."
"The one area that we get value out of now, where we would love to see additional features, is the Session Replay. The ability to see how one individual uses a particular feature is great. But what we'd really like to be able to see is how a large group of people uses a particular feature. I believe Dynatrace has some things on its roadmap to add to Session Replay that would allow us those kinds of insights as well."
"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. In my opinion, it could be extended even more. I would like it to be more configurable for the end-user. It would be nice to have more business rules applicable to the severity. It's already very good as it is now. It is based on the impact on your front-end users. But it would be nice if we could configure it a bit more."
"I need more experience."
"I would like more flexible data export functions and APIs. The end user experience data is very useful to the solutions team to determine actual system usage and misuse. Flexible, easier data APIs would allow us to export the data more easily to other analytics platforms to enable this analysis as well as enable storage of this data for longer term analysis since DynaTrace only holds user data for 35 days."
"Dashboards are too clumsy, so it is good to keep less on dashboards and be easier to find the sections."
"The web-based UI needs to be improved."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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