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Dynatrace vs Monte Carlo comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
344
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (4th), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd)
Monte Carlo
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Observability (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2022
The single-agent format is easy to use and accurately captures issues
Our company uses the solution to identify performance issues. Our database is in Oracle and our user interface is Maps. The solution helps us to gather required information and manage systems.  For example, we just had a big data center issue with cluster settings, voting, and updating. The…
PR
Aug 31, 2023
Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface.
Monte Carlo works as a centralized data tool. We use it for data observability and anomaly detection, which helps identify issues and changes in data flows The product allows us to segment data into domains and categories. It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."
"My primary use of the tool is to keep revenue coming into the business and to use it to help our business team in running their site analytics and web performance tools. They have things like Adobe Analytics that provide them with one layer of data. We use Dynatrace as another railroad metric to both confirm the Adobe Analytics data and enhance it in certain places where Adobe won't give us the answers that we need. In terms of metrics, we've had roughly about 120,000 unique sessions per hour on our website. So, we're capturing a lot of session data and real user data, and all of that data is kept in user sessions. We can look this information up by user ID to tag any given session that we want to find by date/client. E.g., if the user said that they had an issue last Thursday at 11:00 PM, then we can just do a search on their email address, go through all their sessions, and find the one that they mentioned, then dig directly into that one."
"Since we moved to OneAgent, we are much quicker to address live incidents and problems that occur in our systems."
"It used to take a lot of time to troubleshoot. Now, we can actually see the logs anytime we want. I can just find the problem. It has improved performance from a time perspective."
"We are able to fix issues rather quickly, by identifying then fixing them. Therefore, the efficiency of the organization has improved. We are spending less time fixing issues."
"It has given us one simple dashboard to monitor all of our servers and web applications."
"Dynatrace alerts are based on deviations from the reference metrics which are constantly collected."
"You can always get in touch with support representatives and the developers if you want to, and you can get the solution directly from them. They are good about giving customer service, which I really like."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
 

Cons

"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."
"Addition of more statistical features, plus different time series modeling techniques, would really help for future versions."
"They should make hooks into some of the more modern performance testing tools a little easier. I think that would go a long way."
"Another area for improvement is that I would like the alerting to be set up a little bit more easily. Currently, it takes a lot of work to add alerting, especially if you have a large environment, and I consider our environment to be quite large. The alerting takes a lot of administration."
"I would like to see income monitoring for the servers and infrastructure monitoring."
"Improvements in Synthetic monitoring would be great. Certain features of thick client, if available in the web interface, would also be a great improvement."
"The configuration of the alerts, that's been a challenge in AppMon for me, right now. Some of the alerts are too noisy, but that might be my lack of some configuration."
"We're developing more and more microservices and, each time, for an AppMon license, you have to deploy it, you have to configure it, you to get charged for it. It's very time-consuming."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Dynatrace is an expensive solution."
"​I would recommend doing a PoC."
"​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."
"I think that the price is reasonable."
"Product pricing can seem a little over complex, however this is minor and does not detract from the benefits of the solution."
"The setup costs for Dynatrace are low, however licensing costs are high."
"We are buying more licenses, because we are seeing more value."
"There was also some complexity in the adoption rate of it because of how costly the licensing is."
"The product has moderate pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
33%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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 Monte Carlo?
It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams.
What needs improvement with Monte Carlo?
For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history. This feature needs improvement. Its price could be a ...
 

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