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Dynatrace vs Opsview comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
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)
Opsview
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (45th), Server Monitoring (16th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (35th), Cloud Monitoring Software (28th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Network Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Dynatrace is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 12.7%, down 14.7% compared to last year.
Opsview, on the other hand, focuses on Server Monitoring, holds 0.8% mindshare, down 1.0% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Server Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Jeff Cronstrom - PeerSpot reviewer
A highly stable solution that can be used to monitor system availability
The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup. You can clone that service, and it allows you to add new services quickly. You can bring up new servers, and you can easily add them. Also, there's an API to be able to add services as well. We don't use the API. We mostly use the cloning function because it stores everything in a back-end database. The underlying monitoring platform for our version is Nagios. That's where we upgraded from Nagios to Opsview.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The view it provides for default analysis is very nice. The way in which it showcases how the metrics have been captured and how lucidly that they are displayed. This is a good thing to have from a technical and non-technical perspective."
".NET core and Spring code level analysis helps with root cause analysis."
"We can report and monitor on specific use cases which could not be monitored with SAP or other tooling."
"We have improved performance by 50% and determined conflicts in the application to eliminate errors."
"Smartscape is a valuable feature. They also have a technology named PurePath. PurePath is the distributed tracing data."
"The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
"Dynatrace helps to build business and non-business dashboards and the appropriate alarming on mail groups."
"I would rate the technical support very well. They work with the inside their development teams to get us the best answer, as much as possible."
"I am satisfied with the overall product since it works well…It is a stable solution."
"It's a good solution. It covers all aspects of monitoring purposes."
"What was very compelling about OpsView was that we could dial out the noise and have meaningful and actionable alerts."
"The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup."
"We use this solution for internal monitoring our own cloud platform because we are a public cloud provider. We also use it for monitoring purposes on behalf of our clients."
 

Cons

"Ability to better identify SDQ script errors would be helpful."
"Beginner video tutorials would really help."
"I also wish there was the ability to do alert filtering before it triggered an alert with PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Slack."
"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."
"I haven't had a chance to go through all of it, but I would like to see the ability, from an administrative standpoint, for it to collect statistics. I want to be able to see the servers that the agents are installed on. I want it to be able to start doing collections for me by platform: How many Linux servers do I have? How many Windows servers do I have? Statistically give me the information of how things are performing, but I want that in a dashboard, where I can look at a dashboard and I can look at a section. So the ability for me to drill down will make it easier for me."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"It's not really user friendly. You need to go through a certain type of training."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"Pricing and a few certain aspects in the solution needs to be improved."
"Some of the graphics on Opsview could be improved."
"Customized reporting can be improved."
"Maybe the graphical representation can be improved. It can be enhanced for better visualization. It could be a little better. And the graph center can be improved."
"In a future release, we would like to have Observ for AI. Any AI and intelligence it can add to the monitoring is obviously beneficial. We would also like to have automated callouts."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Dynatrace's pricing for their consumption units is rather arcane compared to some of the other tools, thus making forward-looking calculations based on capacity planning quite hard."
"Surprisingly, it is quite expensive. That is something that we could always see: Improved pricing and the overall construct on how do we use each license in regards to usage of the tool."
"Our annual costs were about the same for both AppDynamics and Dynatrace."
"I think that the price is reasonable."
"There is a license issue where if we increase the memory we have to up the licenses. I was unaware of that going in. I thought it was scalable without all the paperwork behind the scenes. ​​"
"Setup cost is very low considering that it is an almost totally, automatic process."
"​A Dynatrace partner will always be willing to give you a trial. Go through the trial to see if there is a benefit for your company."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was a pretty straightforward process. We had no hiccups."
"The solution is not cheap. I think that the pricing is a little bit on the high side."
"I would rate pricing a seven out of ten, where ten is the highest price."
"The solution is priced similarly to other tools offering similar features."
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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
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 Opsview Monitor?
The most valuable feature of Opsview is the ability to clone the services when you're monitoring something out of the test setup.
What needs improvement with Opsview Monitor?
Some of the graphics on Opsview could be improved.
What is your primary use case for Opsview Monitor?
Opsview is used to monitor system availability, whether its service is running on disk usage, CPU usage, etc.
 

Comparisons

 

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Opsview Monitor, Opsview Enterprise
 

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Sample Customers

Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express
IBM, BT, Cisco, Sky, UPS, Capgemini, Visolit, Fujitsu Services UK, UKCloud, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cornell University, Incomm
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