Dynatrace Reviews

Dynatrace helps us monitor our critical applications' health (performance) and measure the quality of service delivered to our customers (SLA and satisfaction).

Thanks to Dynatrace, we are able to quickly spot which tiers are causing a slowdown in order to limit unavailability.

In anaysing trends, we can detect performance degradation and avoid incidents.

Dynatrace gives us a live view on our multi-tiers application. It brings light where we were blind.

• We have drastically reduced the delay taken by the diagnostic phase. As we identify the root cause very rapidly, we can now focus on the solution and communication.
• We have enhanced our dialog with our customers. By comparing their feelings with objective measures, we are able to optimize where the pain point are.

Dynatrace monitors transactions (application), but also gives technical information (JVM, OS).

The value comes from the correlation of this huge amount of data. Dynatrace's engine is powerful enough to filter, split, and graph and "give sense from raw data".

UEM (User Experience Management) is an optional feature that we acquired and use a lot. It provides indicators from the customer's browser, reflecting more precisely on what our internal users are experiencing.

• Even if the engine can manage a huge amount of data, requests take time to succeed.
• The heavy client is not really user-friendly and the concepts (while powerful) are unintuitive.
• Automated reports are ugly, but the latest releases improve the web interface: A smarter way to share dashboards and indicators.

Database monitoring and server performance. Apart from that, error handling and log tracking are also cool features.

There are multiple servers, so to track each server performance is very tough. Dynatrace really did an awesome job to provide us a better solution.

Server performance, because our company has multiple servers. To track each server manually without an application is very hectic. Dynatrace solves the problem by graph to monitor it all instantly.

Dashboards are too clumsy, so it is good to keep less on dashboards and be easier to find the sections. 

Dynatrace is bit costly and not easily affordable.

Identifying and solving SQL queries that were affecting application performance.  Monitoring server and database performance.   

We had a client experience where a high number of simultaneous users were choking system performance which we were able to identify and fix.

The ability to real-time monitor servers and databases without any major drain on application resources is invaluable.  

No major request for additional features. 

Ability to better identify SDQ script errors would be helpful.

APM.

Real-time information allows us to proactively tackle an issue before it affects our clients.

The dashboard gives us a great overview.

The cost is somewhat high.

Dynatrace allows for my developers and administrators to dissect problems and performance impacts in our intranet/extranet environment and determine the root cause.

With the help of Dynatrace, we have improved performance by 50% and determined conflicts in the application to eliminate errors.

The user monitoring is probably the best part of the application. With it, we can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database.

There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit. Other than that, it works like a charm.

Our primary use case is to monitor end-to-end availability of the application, performance of the transaction test-wise and step-wise, and deep dive PurePath analysis of real user visits. 

Dynatrace is an excellent APM solution. I have been working on products, like synthetic monitoring, user experience management, Keynote, mobile testing, etc. 

I found the way Dynatrace analysis engine analyses the data feed and presents it to the user from dashboarding and charting to out-of-the-box reports is very useful. 

Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions. 

Our first use case for Dynatrace was application analysis to find the source of a performance problem on a critical management application.

Through analysis of transactions and transaction flow, we clearly saw the path taken by our transactions, and identified through drill down and PurePaths the time consumed by each class and method. The bottleneck was identified and the problem corrected.

Dynatrace's power lies in its ability to inspect and chart transactions, and draw the PurePath tree. The parameters of the requests and methods can be selected to access the necessary information for efficient analysis.

Some technical architectures are based on an event mechanism operating via a publish/subscribe system. APM technology sometimes reaches its limits to go upstream. 

It should also be remembered that APM is often useful in production where problems are difficult to reproduce. You must be careful in using Dynatrace so that the overhead is limited.

• Alerts
• Monitors
• Reporting and troubleshooting
• Proactive monitoring
• System health and business process monitoring

The web-based UI needs to be improved. The client seems to be heavy on laptops and desktops. Some reports are only on the client versus the Web UI.