Dynatrace vs Nagios Log Server comparison

Dynatrace and Nagios are both solutions in the Log Management category. Dynatrace is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3, while Nagios is ranked #32 with an average rating of 8.0. Dynatrace holds a 5.6% mindshare in LM, compared to Nagios’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nagios users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Dynatrace and Nagios Log Server are competitive products in IT monitoring. Dynatrace holds the upper hand with easier deployment and superior customer service, while Nagios Log Server is valued for its extensive feature set tailored to specific needs.

Features: Dynatrace is noted for its seamless integration, comprehensive monitoring capabilities, and advanced analytics. Nagios Log Server is recognized for flexible log management, customizable alerts, and adaptability to unique requirements.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace could improve its granularity, integration options, and expand current functionalities. Nagios Log Server might work towards a more intuitive configuration process, enhance user interface simplicity, and optimize customer support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace offers straightforward deployment and reliable support. Nagios Log Server requires more technical expertise for setup and has mixed reviews about its customer service effectiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace has higher initial setup costs but delivers a strong ROI through advanced analytics. Nagios Log Server is competitively priced but achieves ROI more slowly because it requires time for full utilization.

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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)

Nagios Log Server

Ranking in Log Management

32nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 5.6%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios Log Server is 0.9%, up from 0.8% 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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Syarul Idzuddin Adzmi

Operation Director at Digital Pulse Sdn Bhd

A scalable and affordable tool for monitoring data centers

Five engineers are needed for the maintenance of the product. I would definitely recommend the solution to those planning to use it. To increase the rating for the product, Nagios should offer remote support and offer more customization in reporting while making it easy for the customers to use it. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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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

"The primary use case is to monitor all our applications. We want a single place where we can monitor all our applications that we are building. Therefore, if something goes wrong, we immediately can find out what went wrong."

"I like the solution's tracing feature."

"Quick Fault Domain Isolations: When people are having a problem, understanding where to look."

"It is limitless when it comes down to being able to scale up or even scale back, if we need it to."

"It gives complete stats of the user and what they are doing."

"Some of the troubleshooting features for development, the PurePath technology in AppMon, are valuable. The dashboarding gives us some good insight into some fluctuations in some of the application areas."

"For stability, our customers have no complaints."

"It helps developers fix old and new problems, helps businesses to understand conversions, statistics, and service health."

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"The product is scalable."

"The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward."

"A great feature of the solution involves its internal portal."

"One of the most valuable features is the dashboard because the UI was effective and easy to use. The alert systems are good as well. We had no failovers and had high availability. We can search the queries fast as well in Nagios Log Server."

Cons

"Sometimes we have issues with the code on their side. We like to get it fixed."

"Every time I want to see the PurePath, I have to launch the client. It would be helpful if they introduced this in the browser application."

"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)."

"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."

"We ran into a problem where the Dynatrace JavaScript agent is returning errors, and it's very apparent that there's a problem. However, the customer support will ask us for seemingly unnecessary details instead of looking at our dashboard through their account to see what the problem is. They ask us for a lot of details not really related to solving the problem. As a result, we still have a few issues that were never resolved. They're not major issues, but they're kind of frustrating."

"DevOps plugin monitoring tools need improvement."

"It needs more dashboards like AppMon."

"There were a number of marketing promises that were made, which we do not see it in the tool yet. "

More Dynatrace cons

"The support could be better."

"The configurations during initial setup could be improved. If they could be agentless, as in the case of the Ansible product, it would be better. I would like to be able to analyze the network bandwidth."

"As we are talking about a product which is open to the public, the pricing makes it challenging for us to profit off of its marketing."

"The customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Decodes on less used/popular protocols are available, but they should be included. Additional investment should not be required."

"Pricing can be high, especially for Portuguese standards. But as one says, you get what you pay for."

"We license it for two environments, typically all of production and all of one lower environment, usually our staging environment. If there is a downside to Dynatrace, the only thing I can think of would be the cost. If it were cheaper, I'd have it in all my environments. I don't think they're charging more than it's worth, by any means. It's just that good software costs money."

"The pricing and licensing are very expensive."

"There are additional Professional Services costs which ensure the solution is configured with meaningful names so you're getting the most money for your investment."

"From what I have heard in the company, Dynatrace is expensive."

"While it is quite good in respect to its functionality, there are few area in regards to pricing that they can look at how to possibly change. I have heard it's costly."

"There is time savings. People's times have been cut in half using this solution because we were previously doing a lot of that manual work. Now, it's a lot more automated, and the data is just there."

More Dynatrace pricing and cost advice

"For a single instance, the price is around $4,000."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap, I rate the pricing an eight or nine."

"We found the pricing to be quite affordable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

34%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

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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 Nagios Log Server?

The initial setup of Nagios Log Server was easy and straightforward.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios Log Server?

My company pays around 500 to 1,000 USD per year toward the licensing cost of the solution. For support, we need to pay extra to Nagios. The solution's price is low. On a scale of one to ten, where...

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What needs improvement with Nagios Log Server?

The customization and dashboards have shortcomings and need to be improved to make the tool look more presentable. The reporting side of the product should allow users to have more customized reports.

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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."

Nagios Enterprises delivers official products, services, and solutions for and around Nagios – the industry standard in enterprise-grade IT infrastructure monitoring. With millions of users worldwide, Nagios is the undisputed champion in the IT monitoring space. Our team of dedicated professionals works to ensure total customer satisfaction with all the services we provide. Our extensive network of partners helps extend Nagios services and solutions to new organizations and markets worldwide to meet a variety of business needs. Nagios Enterprises was founded in 2007 by Ethan Galstad. Ethan created what would later become known as Nagios in 1999, and currently serves as the President of Nagios Enterprises.

Sample Customers

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

IBM, impulse, wipro, comteco

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