Dynatrace Reviews

SaaS infrastructure monitoring and alerting. We use it to monitor over a 1000 servers in AWS.

It is our main SaaS monitoring and alerting solution, and it allows us to identify many problems that we would miss if we did not have a comprehensive monitoring solution.

• Automatic alerting on system problems
• Failure rate increases
• Latency increases, etc. 

This stuff all works out-of-the-box, and is essential for a DevOps team to be aware of to identify production issues.

• The Web UI can be slow and hard to understand. 
• The integration with PagerDuty is currently broken on mobile. 
• It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern.

We use the product on our applications for monitoring and troubleshooting errors through customized dashboards.

The major impact of improvement is from AppMon in our development area. Now we are enable to find applications problems more quickly.

The best feature of the product for me is the real troubleshooting capability through the PurePath analysis. 

I also like the Transaction Flow dashlet where I can see the real path of our web request through the application's layers.

I don't much like the Java Management Extension. I would rather do administration tasks in a web GUI.

We use it to do performance tuning and APM of production environments for clients. We have revamped our performance tuning practices to leverage Dynatrace instead of using OS-level tools, such as the sysstat package for Linux.

It simplifies a lot of the processes of performance tuning client systems before they go live. It severely reduces the time spent doing performance test cycles. We used to do three to four weeks of tests, and with clients using Dynatrace we can normally do it in one week.

• Drill downs all the way to the database calls.
• Adding sensors.
• Browsing PurePath.
• Saving sessions.

Make the Web UI more robust. Last time I used the web interface, it was still pretty crude. Price also is a major concern for all the clients I work with.

We use the Dynatrace platform to perform Application Performance Management for our Kubernetes clusters and some other legacy clusters. We have many Kubernetes clusters in our company and we are connecting each to an on-premise Dynatrace platform so that we can analyze the performance of each one separately.

Besides being an Application Performance management platform, Dynatrace has many important features that are easy to use. This gives us more time to focus on business. From installation to page load analysis, passing by monitoring hosts. Everything works like a charm.

The most valuable features of Dynatrace are the ease of installation and management, as well as its extensibility.

Dynatrace provides a wide range of platform supports that can be installed.

The service should be improved such that it is more useful to its clients. For instance, detect repeated performance-issue-related root causes, optional log streaming for hosts, processes, or a group of processes.

It needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically.

For the Kubernetes part, we have a good operator that takes care of updating the agents so we have nothing to do.

We are using it in our AWS environment for monitoring health and application performance for roughly 400 instances running thousands of Docker containers.

• Improved visibility on performance and application issues.
• Automatic instrumentation of new services and technology without the need to install specific agents or modules.

• OneAgent
• AI-powered problem analysis
• Pre-configured alerts
• AWS integration
• API interface 

• SSO options are missing.
• JIRA integration should be enriched and more granular.
• Filters should have a “negative” option.

We use it to find database hotspots, method hotspots, CPU, JVM , Disk I/O and more.

Has helped us find issues such as application suspension and to improve web services data.

PurePath, Database Hotspots, Method Hotspots, CPU, JVM, disk I/O and other graphs.

Find the right method, give the cause of suspension, give tips for resolution, and one call query to find method.

We were using a freeware tool and we needed all the information in one tool.

We use Dynatrace for application monitoring.

We use this product with the goal to improve our abilities.

The most valuable feature is the monitoring of application performance.

I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly. They could do more in-depth analysis of the application monitoring. Also, they also could do some type of anomaly detection with positioning and have better integration with AWS.

So far, the scalability has been okay. Our customer base is hundreds of thousands.

The product needs a lot of the support, especially on the consulting side and post sales. You will also need an administrator.

I was not involved in the decision-making process. However, there are more competitive products on the market, which are more user-friendly, feature-rich, etc.

Research into similar products. 

It adapts well for integration with other products in our environment.

We don't use it for AWS.