Dynatrace vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs comparison

Dynatrace and VMware are both solutions in the Log Management category. Dynatrace is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3, while VMware is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.4. Dynatrace holds a 5.6% mindshare in LM, compared to VMware’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of VMware users who would recommend it.

Dynatrace

Read 344 Dynatrace reviews

15,608 Views
9,390 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Read 25 VMware Aria Operations for Logs reviews

2,862 Views
2,116 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

Dynatrace

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Dynatrace and VMware Aria Operations for Logs compete in the log management category. Dynatrace holds the upper hand in cost-effectiveness and support, while VMware Aria Operations is preferred for its feature set and integration capabilities.

Features: Dynatrace provides comprehensive analysis, automation features, and detailed root-cause analysis. VMware Aria Operations for Logs offers seamless integration with VMware environments, robust log processing, and tailored user experiences for VMware users.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace could benefit from simplifying its configuration process. VMware Aria Operations for Logs requires clearer documentation and more efficient setup. Each has specific areas to address for improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace ensures a smooth deployment and occasional support needs, with excellent customer service. VMware Aria Operations for Logs is known for straightforward deployment and a highly responsive support team.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace offers competitive pricing with faster ROI, appealing to budget-conscious users. VMware Aria Operations for Logs, while pricier, justifies the expense with its extensive features, offering long-term value in its integrations.

To learn more, read our detailed Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs Report (Updated: December 2024).

Buyer's Guide

Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs

December 2024

Download the complete report

Helped 824,067 peers since 2012

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)

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in Log Management

16th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs is 1.2%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management

Featured Reviews

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.

Read full review

DineshKumar3

Service Delivery Manager at DXC

Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies

What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The PurePath stuff for deep dive analysis on problems. That is massive as far as having a benefit."

"End-to-end visibility of the applications, since we have them instrumented. Understanding where the hotspots are in the applications."

"We had point solutions where we could see different elements of the stack, and Dynatrace ties everything together. Before, we could never get that full-stack monitoring. It also helps us get us the context of the customer experience. What's the business impact of those problems?"

"I can review behaviors, trending issues, and resolve issues before they impact our clients."

"Real time monitoring helps reduce downtime. It saves a lot of time in determining what is the likely cause of an issue an end user may be experiencing."

"Integration within the CI/CD pipeline helps avoid problems in production by detecting application faults upfront."

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

"The solution's ability to assess the severity of anomalies based on the actual impact to users and business KPIs is great. It's exactly what we need. The severity impact is based on the users, the availability, and the impact it has on your business."

More Dynatrace pros

"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."

"The events are notably more descriptive, aiding in security and event analysis. We've also integrated Sky Collector, providing valuable insights and solutions for troubleshooting."

"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."

"vRealize Log Insight has been running without any issues."

"It gives the customer a quick overview, so they don't have to dig. There's a clear dashboard with many sensors in a single space. He gets a helicopter view of his environment, but he can investigate further if there are serious issues. It's pretty user-friendly."

"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."

"The ability to narrow into a specific time to filter heavy hitters and anomalies is extremely valuable."

"The solution is quite user-friendly."

More VMware Aria Operations for Logs pros

Cons

"The functionality needs improvement."

"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."

"I would like to see AppMon also integrated in the Dynatrace portal. There are certain features, which I am not saying are not there in Dynatrace, but I am used to in AppMon."

"More integrations could prove very beneficial to us."

"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 AI is not that intelligent and there are different places where it could be even more automated."

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

"I would like to see dashboards included, and maybe more possibilities in terms of customization."

More Dynatrace cons

"What I'd like to improve in vRealize Log Insight is the licensing model. VMware provides vRealize Log Insight along with the VMware Cloud Foundation, but customers who would like to go for the native VMware would have to procure vRealize Log Insight separately. Today, vRealize Log Insight is offered on two different licenses, one is based on the number of VMs, and the other is based on the number of physical codes on the machine. If VMware can provide a bundle offer for customers who procure more than ten licenses, where you can have an option to run, for example, three hundred machines on vRealize Log Insight with no extra cost, this would encourage more people to adopt the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of vRealize Log Insight is for a cloud option to be available, which would be a pay-as-you-go licensing model that would allow me to pick and choose what I'll monitor. For example, I have one thousand and three hundred critical servers, and the seven hundred servers for basic development, I don't want to monitor on vRealize Log Insight today, so I should be able to pick what I need to monitor on the solution and only pay for that specific instance. If VMware can apply these changes, it would help VMware customers to procure more or adopt more of vRealize Log Insight even in smaller projects."

"If data migration occurs during a search, it alters performance, causing delays."

"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."

"Technical support should be improved."

"The monitoring landscape is getting bigger. When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, we need more visibility. VMware needs to integrate more related applications and third-party products. That would make it more appealing to an audience beyond the VMware team."

"It's great for VMware, but it would be good if they had third-party logins."

"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."

"Log retention should have more options for user control."

More VMware Aria Operations for Logs cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Dynatrace is bit costly and not easily affordable."

"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."

"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."

"The setup costs for Dynatrace are low, however licensing costs are high."

"Always gives good ROI and total cost of ownership."

"Licensing is a bit complicated for Dynatrace, and pricing is dependent on how much your organization invests."

"Dynatrace is still kind of an expensive solution compared to others. But I recognize that they are ahead of the competition when we do a feature by feature comparison."

"This is an expensive solution, but it is also worth the money."

More Dynatrace pricing and cost advice

"It is not cheap. But it is worth it."

"Pricing is good because it is part of the suite package. It comes in a bundle for us."

"Pricing could always be lower. If it were free, I would be more satisfied."

"I am not sure what the exact cost is. However, I believe the vRealize suite costs $2,500.00 per year."

"The license cost for any other monitoring tool is too high compared to this product."

"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"The licensing cost for vRealize Log Insight is a little higher, so in terms of cost, it all depends upon what kind of environment you have. If you have a complete virtualized environment, or at least you're using a ninety-five percent virtualized environment, then vRealize Log Insight will play a very good role because it is a VMware component, so it has very tight integration with other VMware components and systems. This means you don't have to procure any other monitoring and management tool, and you don't need a separate automation tool. vRealize Log Insight will have an upper hand if your environment is purely virtualized on VMware. If you're using a mix of physical and virtual components, for example, a 50:50 ratio, then you need to have a third-party component to manage overall monitoring."

"The product's price is reasonable, but when it comes to SQL licensing, it's a bit expensive."

More VMware Aria Operations for Logs pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Log Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

824,067 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

34%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

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...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

What do you like most about vRealize Log Insight?

The events are notably more descriptive, aiding in security and event analysis. We've also integrated Sky Collector, providing valuable insights and solutions for troubleshooting.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Log Insight?

One major advantage of VMware compared to Splunk is pricing. VMware is licensed based on hardware rather than the amount of data, making it much cheaper. Splunk, often paid by the terabytes, become...

See all answers

What needs improvement with vRealize Log Insight?

The tool could benefit from improved filter settings and dashboarding. While there are dashboards available, they are often created by community members and may not work after updates. It would be ...

See all answers

Comparisons

Datadog vs Dynatrace

Compared 13% of the time

Azure Monitor vs Dynatrace

Compared 8% of the time

New Relic vs Dynatrace

Compared 7% of the time

AppDynamics vs Dynatrace

Compared 7% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Dynatrace

Compared 6% of the time

More Dynatrace Competitors

Splunk Enterprise Security vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Compared 21% of the time

Elastic Security vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Compared 15% of the time

LogRhythm SIEM vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Compared 13% of the time

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Compared 8% of the time

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Compared 2% of the time

More VMware Aria Operations for Logs Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Dynatrace

December 2024

Download Dynatrace product report

Buyer's Guide

VMware Aria Operations for Logs

November 2024

Download VMware Aria Operations for Logs product report

Also Known As

No data available

vRealize Log Insight

Learn More

Dynatrace

Video not available

VMware

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."

Manage data at scale with centralized log management, deep operational visibility and intelligent analytics for troubleshooting and auditing across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Sample Customers

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

Wildlands Adventure Zoo, Medic Mobile, IBM, Seventy Seven Energy, Baystate Health, Osis, Oxford University, Columbia University, Siemens, Cardinal Health, Ashdod Port, Vasakronan, Sydney Adventist Hospital, University of Derby

Buyer's Guide

Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs

December 2024

Free Report: Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Find out what your peers are saying about Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs and other solutions. Updated: December 2024.

DOWNLOAD NOW

824,067 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.

See our list of best Log Management vendors.

We monitor all Log Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.