Dynatrace vs ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations comparison

The compared Dynatrace and ExtraHop Networks solutions aren't in the same category. Dynatrace is ranked #2 in APM , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 5.2% mindshare in the category. ExtraHop Networks is ranked #13 in IOA , and holds a 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ExtraHop Networks users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

359

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (5th), Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)

ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT O...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (71st), Network Diagnostics (10th), IT Operations Analytics (13th), Network Packet Capture (6th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Dynatrace is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 5.2%, down 10.6% compared to last year.
ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations, on the other hand, focuses on IT Operations Analytics, holds 4.2% mindshare, up 2.3% since last year.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	5.2%
Datadog	4.6%
Splunk AppDynamics	4.5%
Other	85.7%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations	4.2%
Splunk Enterprise Security	13.5%
Splunk AppDynamics	9.9%
Other	72.4%

IT Operations Analytics

Featured Reviews

Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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Out West

Project Manager and IT Management Consultant at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

Great for identifying application interdependencies with helpful support but needs better visualizations

We're just trying to identify the application interdependencies, which normally reside on different servers, including web servers, database servers, enterprise service bus, et cetera, up to your presentation layer before we start moving stuff around. Normally, the reason why we use these tools is to understand what assets we have, where they're deployed, and how they enter and operate before we decide to go move something from point A to point B. The solution is going to allow me to establish a wave or migration plan where you have different waves of migration and then you actually have move groups to try and get your application moved from A to B seamlessly. A to B could be on-premise to on-premise. It could be on-premise to cloud. Et cetera. The solution can tell me what components can I deploy, for example, into a cloud space, without having to refactor my applications since that can be quite time-consuming and costly.

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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

"I think with Dynatrace, it has helped to bring value to the business because now we can speak using the same language."

"Through Dynatrace feedback, we were able to figure out bottlenecks, plan performance user stories, optimize execution time, and make numerous corrections."

"Using Dynatrace, we collected application metrics within three hours, in most cases, the majority of our triage were within three hours, then we were able to discover the root cause of issues."

"It prevents (together with performance testing) production performance issues which usually result in customer complaints or system downtime."

"We spend less time tracking down what's truly a problem and looking for problems, and more time actually solving the problems."

"The main difference and the main role of Dynatrace is the AI."

"The main thing we have achieved using this software is minimizing the downtime of our applications by reacting to the alerts that it triggers."

"Using this tool, it pinpointed the problem instead of us scratching our heads trying to identify where it could go wrong, and we could directly proceed with the solution."

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"You cannot hide from the wire; all truth lives in the packets, and ExtraHop gets them to talk!"

"ExtraHop came out with the best price, and I think that it gives us a broader view of our network."

"The most valuable features are security detections, perimeter detection, dashboards, and alerts."

"This solution is more applications reference architecture focused. Its benefit is that it specializes in that space."

"We have been able to improve the mean time to resolution by several hours in some cases."

"This is a must-try product."

"It gives you full 360-degree visibility into your entire infrastructure."

"ExtraHop is far ahead of anything comparable in the industry."

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Cons

"We're not quite there yet, but the thing I would like to see is to really have that view of how issues relate to the business. Often enough, the tools that IT have for IT stop at the IT level. They cannot go into the business level part. They can't understand, because they don't have the information that the business needs to provide them with - for example how much an hour of downtime costs the business. For us, in IT, it's an hour of downtime, but it equates to money and equates to hours lost and equates to a lot of things, and often enough we don't have that information. This is where I would like to see us going."

"Better root cause detection and improve root cause categories. In some cases, the root cause points out only a clue of what has happened."

"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."

"Configuration could be simpler. Alert triggers could be easier to setup and more granular."

"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."

"I think they're working on even more integration from external third party input, but that is ongoing. So the faster it's there the better. Clock monitoring is one of these areas where improvements can be made."

"One thing that I would like to see is for companies like us - large AppMon customers that have a lot of presence in AppMon, a lot of manually configured things and customizations - would be something that would help us be able to make that journey more easily, the transition from to AppMon to Dynatrace."

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

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"I would improve the Rule-Based Access Control (RBAC) by providing granular access control to the data."

"We've had some struggles getting it to see everything that we want to see. Network visibility is something that needs to be improved."

"We'd like to see a local presence within the region in order to have seamless service whether it's the support, the implementation, or professional services."

"They either have to go broad or decide what their bread and butter is and get really good at that."

"This solution would be improved if it had the ability to retain data longer."

"The solution could get more aggressive in the discounting of the overall cost."

"There is room for improvement in the security part. They have a new solution, ExtraHop Reveal(x), and I think it needs improvement."

"The improvement that would make the most impact would be expanding on the new EXA big data back end."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's more expensive than other solutions, but worth it. We use full APM monitoring on our primary systems, but only resource monitoring on lesser systems. We shift licenses around our environment when a deeper dive into lesser systems is required."

"The setup costs for Dynatrace are low, however licensing costs are high."

"Look at the product and the product features, not the price. Too often people look at the price and turn away. Dynatrace costs a little bit more than the other products I researched, but it can do far more."

"Licensing is very interesting, as you pay only for what is being monitored. A lot of things are given away for no additional cost. If you have a great IT consolidation, it will be pretty cheap. If you have a lot of servers, it will be heavier."

"Dynatrace is still kind of an expensive solution compared to others. But I recognize that they are ahead of the competition when we do a feature by feature comparison."

"It is quite costly. Dynatrace was the most expensive, compared to the other products we looked at. But it was also a lot better. If you want value for your money, Dynatrace is the way to go."

"Do a PoC and see if you like it."

"Dynatrace is usually paid on a yearly basis."

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"The pricing is higher than other solutions, but with such good features, I think it's worth it."

"The price of this solution for our environment is about £650,000 ($855,000 USD) for three years."

"The pricing is fair considering the value provided."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

13%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	299

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

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...

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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...

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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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Overview

Dynatrace offers AI-driven root cause analysis, full-stack observability, and more. Its seamless integration and automated alerts enhance operational efficiency for application performance monitoring across diverse environments.

Dynatrace provides users with comprehensive tools for proactive monitoring, leveraging AI-powered insights to detect bottlenecks and monitor user behavior. It enhances system dependency visualization via Smartscape and offers deep transaction insights through PurePath. Session Replay captures real user experiences, while custom dashboards emphasize essential metrics. Integration capabilities and seamless deployment are key, though users face challenges with navigation, integration, and licensing. Enhancing third-party training tools and optimizing real-time AI diagnostics is desired, with demands for better database monitoring reports and simpler UI.

What are Dynatrace's key features?

AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis: Identifies issues with precision.
Full-Stack Observability: Monitors across all platforms.
Smartscape: Visualizes system dependencies.
PurePath: Provides transaction flow insights.
Session Replay: Captures user interactions.
Custom Dashboards: Focuses on essential metrics.
Automated Alerts: Minimizes downtime.

What benefits should users consider?

Operational Efficiency: Enhances performance management.
Seamless Deployment: Reduces manual intervention.
Integration Capabilities: Ensures smooth system coexistence.
User Experience Insights: Tracks behavior and reliability.

Dynatrace is implemented in industries like finance for monitoring infrastructure and user experience. In manufacturing, it helps ensure system reliability. Its AI-driven approach is crucial for cloud deployments, supporting performance optimization and proactive monitoring.

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ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations leverages wire data analytics to provide valuable insights across all network layers. Offering auto-discovery, live PCAP analysis, and customizable dashboards, it empowers IT teams with enhanced application analysis and security detections.

Focusing on wire data analytics from Layer 2 to Layer 7, ExtraHop Reveal(x) delivers application analysis, security anomaly monitoring, and real-time traffic analysis. With plug-and-play deployment and minimal administration, it facilitates seamless integration. Users benefit from its comprehensive network performance evaluation, insightful network topology mapping, and capabilities like auto-discovery. Despite room for enhancement in industry-specific solutions, visualizations, and security features, its extensive programmability supports diverse IT operations needs. It is perfect for monitoring enterprise applications and ensuring efficient network security and operations.

What are the key features of ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations?

Wire Data Analytics: Analyzes data from Layer 2 to 7 for comprehensive insights into network performance.
Application Analysis: Offers deep analysis of applications to optimize performance and resolve issues quickly.
Security Detections: Provides robust anomaly detection for enhanced network security.
Customizable Dashboards: Users can tailor dashboards for specific monitoring needs.
Plug-and-Play Deployment: Ensures easy setup and integration with existing infrastructure.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?

Network Performance Insights: Provides detailed insights to improve network efficiency and performance.
Real-Time Traffic Analysis: Enables quick response to network anomalies with real-time data.
Enhanced Security Monitoring: Strengthens security through comprehensive anomaly detection.
Efficient Problem Resolution: Facilitates identification of root causes for rapid issue resolution.
Reduced Administrative Overhead: Requires minimal administration with an easy-to-deploy configuration.

ExtraHop Reveal(x) is implemented in industries requiring detailed IT infrastructure monitoring, enterprise application tracking, and network security evaluation. It aids in identifying device misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and analyzing IT component interactions to ensure secure and efficient operations.

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Sample Customers

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

Alaska Airlines, bet365, Concur, McKesson, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Practice Fusion, Seattle Children's Hospital, Steward Health Care System

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