We also selected Dynatrace but for different reasons.   We were looking for a solution that integrated user experience to backend systems. The RUM data captured by Dynatrace and integration to the transaction trace is phenomenal.   Datadog was lacking in the APM space when…

We did an evaluation of the top products (Dynatrace, AppD, New Relic, & CA) and have been very happy with our selection of Dynatrace.   The entity relationship mapping along with transaction trace which is leveraged by the AI provides a ton of insight and value.  This has…

We did an evaluation that happened to include the 4 options.   Most companies can be successful with any of the solutions. Our selection aligned with the highest rated product, Dynatrace, therefore they appeared to get it right.

Where do you want to spend your money, on people or licenses ELK requires a long-term investment in engineering resources to manage the system and to provide the capability.   Datadog provides capabilities for you so you only need some administrators. What are the…

Server is a rather vague term in these days of virtualization but also gets to the point, context.  If you are monitoring any entity, that entities context in the environment is the most important thing to consider which means you need to understand the role of the "server"…

Each vendor will typically provide a certification for their tool.  I expect this for every vendor.  I'm not aware of a tool agnostic APM certification .... which would be an interesting cert I would love to use when evaluating candidates. 

Our organization is large and has a long history.  We had a lot of on-premise, monolithic applications and tons of business logic included in places it shouldn't be.  This caused a lot of pain to implementing new architectures.  Several years back we implemented new…

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 monitoring. We maintain critical processing on our mainframe so there was a desire…

I'll answer based on my requirements.... Cloud for me is just another platform.  PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, on-premise hosts, VMWare, mainframe, multiple clouds are all part of my problem.  With an APM solution a key capability is transaction trace so I need a common solution across…

My experience having done a similar analysis.  considering the 4 top tools from Gartner magic quadrant which includes Broadcom (CA) APM, New Relic, App Dynamics and Dynatrace Dynatrace is the tool we selected.  It has the most robust traceability, simplest…

@Adrian Antonypillai Easiest deployments?  this is easily Dynatrace.  You deploy the oneagent on the host and much of the rest is taken care of for you.  There is a lot of automation offered by the solution for deployment and maintenance.  For example, you don't need to…

@Adrian Antonypillai There was complexity in implementing AppD and configuring for cloud applications (a private openstack deployment). The team trying to implement the product struggled and was not able to deliver some expected features. This was aside from license issues…

Like all enterprise software, it's all negotiable. What gets at the heart of the question is an ability to estimate the volume. Dynatrace is measured by # of sessions & synthetics One user session costs 0.25 DEM and is measured as a user interacting with a monitored app for…

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 monitoring.  We maintain critical processing on our mainframe so there was a desire…