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Dynatrace vs Instabug comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Ranking in Mobile APM
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
345
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (5th), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd)
Instabug
Ranking in Mobile APM
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Mobile APM category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 39.7%, down from 43.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Instabug is 0.5%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile APM
 

Featured Reviews

Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides a comprehensive view by integrating with other monitoring systems
There may be an issue since there are many tools like Splunk involved in network monitoring. From an IP perspective, Dynatrace is performing well. If they want to develop in network monitoring, they can, as it's part of their product line. It's not rocketry, so they can accomplish it. If I, as an SI, look at it from an enterprise perspective, considering the cost from the client, I prefer not to go with multiple systems, as they don't provide a complete 360-degree view. They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system. The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.
Aisha Mazher - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable solution that provides visibility into user journeys and enables the filing of RCA reports
The initial setup was really easy. There were some calls that we had to integrate into our code. Instabug was easy to integrate with our app. If we needed special logs for some calls to check the response rate of some end-to-end procedures, we could also integrate them. There were some APIs we could use for end-to-end integration. The product was deployed on Bitbucket. The beta app was deployed in our local environment. The deployment process was not time-consuming. The production phase took a day. It was just a one-time effort. For the beta app, we had to do it multiple times, but it was easy to deploy.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"The ability to real-time monitor servers and databases without any major drain on application resources is invaluable."
"When collecting data with Dynatrace, we saw every single transaction that happened in real-time."
"Provides one consolidated view on application performance."
"We are quite happy with the support that they have been providing."
"The agent deployment is the most valuable. You don't need to do any configuration. You just deploy the agents, and it can automatically detect your infrastructure. That was the greatest feature that we saw in Dynatrace. If there is any database, it can detect it automatically and present everything to you."
"For me the service workflow and the dashboards are the most valuable features, simply because I can know what’s going on in my infrastructure within five minutes, versus two hours."
"We have improved performance by 50% and determined conflicts in the application to eliminate errors."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"The product makes it very easy to reproduce issues."
 

Cons

"If you want to see a month's data, it keeps on spinning. Here is an improvement which needs to happen, which is the case with all applications or tools. There is a lot of data, and either we have to change the way we are logging or the application needs to be enhanced."
"The GUI has the most room for improvement. Sometimes, it can be a little cumbersome to find things and be able to create your own views, or be able to dig in and understand where things are."
"I also wish there was the ability to do alert filtering before it triggered an alert with PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Slack."
"I am unable to use Synthetic to automate user login."
"I would like to see the Business Transactions made easier, so you can distinguish users and companies (this can get very hairy for a large multi-tenant application)."
"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."
"They need better infrastructure monitoring. New Relic is beating them for infrastructure monitoring."
"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."
"It would be beneficial if the tool could be more precise in capturing steps, focusing only on the relevant ones. For example, there were some times when it caught some extra screenshots which were not included in the steps. Sometimes, it also happened that it got some extra steps that were not in there to reproduce the bug. We also called that screenshot and the steps there as well."
"The end users were not able to report bugs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was a pretty straightforward process. We had no hiccups."
"The licensing model is confusing in solutioning clients for the number of hosts needed to deploy."
"As compared to New Relic and other providers, it is more expensive, which is its biggest disadvantage. Its biggest advantage is its capability. It is more feature-rich."
"The solution has saved us money through the consolidation of tools. With a hybrid landscape, we had multiple tools. When we consolidated, we removed four or five other monitoring tools with one. For the last ROI calculation that I did, Dynatrace was saving us up to $500,000 per year."
"The price range is quite high."
"​Make sure your leadership buy-in is in place. Ensure leadership understands that an APM solution is a fairly expensive, so they know what they are getting into."
"Dynatrace is bit costly and not easily affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
36%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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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...
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...
What do you like most about Instabug?
The product makes it very easy to reproduce issues.
What needs improvement with Instabug?
The end users were not able to report bugs. We had to depend only upon the crash reports. For example, if an application was not crashing, but a specific functionality was not working, the QA perso...
What is your primary use case for Instabug?
I used the solution to perform RCA for my app. I used to review the crash reports every week and check which API or call was failing repeatedly. I created a debugging configuration in Jira and repo...
 

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