We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is the preferred choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its advanced features such as real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities, as well as AI capabilities for automating incident alerts and the Kubernetes module for topology visualization. Additionally, Dynatrace provides good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. Although WhatsUp Gold is stable and cost-effective, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"The autodiscovery of service intercommunication has saved countless man hours and is dynamically updated when new services are added."
"We also got know many internal code bugs which could have caused memory leaks or other issues which we were not able to catch during that development phase."
"Some of the main benefits are being able to quickly identify when transactions start to slow or run into issues, or hiccups if you will."
"The graphical interface is helpful, as it illustrates things well for anyone who wants to know about the information it provides."
"This solution has helped us to improve application performance and reduce issue-impact with faster resolutions."
"It highlights areas that we could be doing better and increases our performance metrics by showing the biggest pain points."
"Being able to drill down into the PurePaths to get to a solution is key for us."
"The overall application monitoring ability to do alerts."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"They could have a better user interface, better automation, better support for cloud-based, and SaaS applications."
"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."
"This solution needs improvement in terms of automation."
"On the one hand we have Dynatrace, on the other hand, we have AppMon. We know Dynatrace is more powerful, with a lot of functions, but there are some core functions AppMon has that Dynatrace needs. Our main use is AppMon and we have not gone to Dynatrace because we don't have those specific functions that we need."
"Dynatrace has been difficult to set up and use to diagnose problems in the past due to the complex nature of the tool."
"Graphically, it is not good."
"It definitely needs HA, because we have so many applications that are dependent on AppMon that it has been deemed critical. Any downtime, it just affects so many users. So that's one of our key asks for the future."
"The flexibility when it comes to integrating with other tools is very low."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The product is old and not updated."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Dynatrace vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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