Dynatrace vs Graylog comparison

Dynatrace and Graylog are both solutions in the Log Management category. Dynatrace is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3, while Graylog is ranked #17 with an average rating of 6.5. Dynatrace holds a 5.8% mindshare in LM, compared to Graylog’s 6.4% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Graylog users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Dynatrace and Graylog compete in monitoring and log management. Users generally prefer Dynatrace for expansive monitoring, but Graylog is seen as better in log management efficiency.

Features: Dynatrace offers comprehensive monitoring tools, AI-driven insights for anomaly detection, and end-to-end visibility benefits. Graylog focuses on centralized logging, real-time insights, and ease of log searches, making it a preferred choice in log management.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace could improve configuration complexity, custom scripting flexibility, and streamline advanced configurations. Graylog could simplify initial setup, refine alerting mechanisms, and enhance user accessibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace offers flexible deployment models and responsive customer service. Graylog provides simple deployment and offers straightforward setup, though customer support response times could improve.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace is a high-cost solution, with ROI justified by its extensive capabilities. Graylog is seen as cost-effective, with competitive ROI for log-centered use cases.

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Ranking in Log Management

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

344

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd)

Graylog

Ranking in Log Management

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 5.8%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Graylog is 6.4%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management

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Sathis-Kumar

Senior Manager at Bank of America

The single-agent format is easy to use and accurately captures issues

We are currently migrating from AppDynamics to the solution. AppDynamics is moving toward a fast model and has a few issues with vendor support. It also requires multiple agents for each function. For example, a Java-related APM requires the installation of another agent. The solution is a bit higher priced than AppDynamics but is more user friendly and only requires one agent, so our application teams prefer it.

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Nicolae CIornii

Security Officer at BC Energbank S.A.

Stable solution with room for improvement in interactivity and user-friendliness

We have tested IBM QRadar and now use it. First of all, the key factor is the pricing. I saw that IBM QRadar has an interactive dashboard, providing valuable insights to people. Additionally, I've seen that IBM QRadar has an agent that simplifies installations across various platforms without requiring intricate configurations. Also, IBM QRadar has automatic reporting.

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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

"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."

"Its monitoring and key purpose capabilities are the most valuable. It provides the root cause of problems and helps peers join the war room."

"The Davis artificial intelligence built-in program is valuable. It keeps all the information about the systems, connections, service calls, and requests in its database. It looks at response times and keeps everything in check with baseline figures. If anything goes outside of that baseline, it reports based on that. If the performance starts degrading, it reports on that. Before something breaks, it tells you that it is going to break, and that's the most useful feature of Dynatrace."

"Developers love the tool, because it is easy to use. They can immediately see how their code behaves."

"We have drastically reduced the delay taken by the diagnostic phase. As we identify the root cause very rapidly, we can now focus on the solution and communication."

"The User Sessions Query language has definitely been the most helpful with its key user actions and user session properties. Using those together, that has completely transformed how we're able to identify customers and their problems on our site. It has made a very big impact over the year."

"Reduces troubleshooting time by finding problems before the system is launched."

"The most valuable feature is the workflow, which helps you to easily have an overview of the infrastructure that you are analyzing, without having worked with it previously."

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"Storing logs in Elasticsearch means log retrieval is extremely fast, and full text search is available by default."

"We're using the Community edition, but I know that it has really good dashboarding and alerts."

"Everything stands out as valuable, including the fact that I can quantify and qualify the logs, create pipelines and process the logs in any way I like, and create charts or data maps."

"The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance."

"Open source and user friendly."

"We run a containerized microservices environment. Being able to set up streams and search for errors and anomalies across hundreds of containers is why a log aggregation platform like Graylog is valuable to us."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its new interface."

"The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."

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Cons

"The web interface, in some cases, is a little ambiguous to use."

"There is a limitation on timeframe. Now, if you look at the dashboard, it will state five minutes, then 15 minutes, then one hour, then six hours, and finally 24 hours. I would like them to provide a set of options defining the business hour."

"I would like to see an App store for plugins and extensions."

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

"I would like the ability to export a user session into csv format. (I am aware that I can export a user session via a webhook)."

"UEM (User Experience Management) works great for web clients and Android and IOS apps, but for other rich clients it's a lot more challenging."

"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."

"The heavy client is not really user-friendly and the concepts (while powerful) are unintuitive."

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"Elasticsearch recommendations for tuning could be better. Graylog doesn't have direct support for running the system inside of Kubernetes, so it can be challenging to fill in the gaps and set up containers in a way that is both performant and stable."

"Over six months, I had two similar issues where searches were performed on field "messages". It exhausted all the memory of the ES node causing an ES crash and a Graylog halt."

"There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature."

"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."

"I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install."

"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."

"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."

"Since container orchestration systems are popular and Graylog fits the niche well, perhaps they could officially support running in docker containers on Kubernetes as a StatefulSet as a use case. That way, the declarative nature of Kubernetes config files would document their best case deployment scenario-"

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Product pricing can seem a little over complex, however this is minor and does not detract from the benefits of the solution."

"We found a tool that can be utilized by testing, DevOps, marketing, software engineering, and monitoring. Before, we always had everybody doing their own thing. Now, everybody's utilizing one tool, which is huge. That is a huge savings."

"Dynatrace is very good and it's provided a lot of information, it plays a positive role in making your application up to date in the market. If you want to monitor some applications only, it would be cheaper if you did cloud monitoring, but the price benefit depends on the use case."

"If there are no corporate requirements to run Dynatrace Managed (operating it yourself), I would definitely go for the size option. For small and medium-sized companies, the size option is probably the cheapest one. You don't need to look into operating it. You don't need to run hardware. It is pay as you go."

"Price (of the product) is a major concern for all the clients I work with."

"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."

"I have not been able to observe more than 1% overhead, despite Dynatrace saying that it can be slightly higher in some situations."

"Dynatrace has a place for everybody. How you use it and what your budgetary limitations are will dictate what you do with it. But it's within everybody's reach. If you're a small organization and you have a large infrastructure, you may not be able to monitor the whole thing. You may have to pick and choose what you want to monitor, and you have the ability to do so. Your available funds are going to dictate that."

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"I am using a community edition. I have not looked at the enterprise offering from Graylog."

"There is an open source version and an enterprise version. I wouldn't recommend the enterprise version, but as an open source solution, it is solid and works really well."

"It's open source and free. They have a paid version, but we never looked into that because we never needed the features of the paid version."

"We're using the Community edition."

"You get a lot out-of-the-box with the non-enterprise version, so give it a try first."

"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"Having paid official support is wise for projects."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

33%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

Government

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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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What do you like most about Graylog?

The product is scalable. The solution is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Graylog?

We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive.

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What needs improvement with Graylog?

Since it's a free tool, I don't have much to say. Troubleshooting is important to me. The initial setup is complex. I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, ...

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Overview

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."

Graylog is purpose-built to deliver the best log collection, storage, enrichment, and analysis. Graylog is:

Considerably faster analysis speeds.
More robust and easier-to-use analysis platform.
Simpler administration and infrastructure management.
Lower cost than alternatives.
Full-scale customer service.
No expensive training or tool experts required.

Sample Customers

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

Blue Cross Blue Shield, eBay, Cisco, LinkedIn, SAP, King.com, Twilio, Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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