We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and AppDynamics 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 option. It is praised for its strong AI capabilities, better real-user monitoring and session replay functions, and user-friendly interface. It also offers better visibility and scanning of services and applications, with the ability to analyze traffic.
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"The primary use case is to monitor all our applications. We want a single place where we can monitor all our applications that we are building. Therefore, if something goes wrong, we immediately can find out what went wrong."
"It is a product that helps developers, testers, and operations to make sure their applications work quickly and reliably."
"The user experience allows us to be able to gauge customer experience and understand the performance impact of our platform."
"Reduced MTTR, thanks to smart problem detection and automated root cause analysis."
"PureStack, I just love it. It can give visibility from the end-user perspective right through to the code level. That's the most valuable feature."
"By using Dynatrace, we can set up the agents to provide alerts at the JVM level."
"We use it for monitoring all the applications in our bank, and it works fantastically."
"We’re monitoring our SQL databases, we’re monitoring our microservices infrastructure, we’re monitoring our front-end we’re monitoring our mobile apps. It has increased our productivity, we’ve been able to optimize all of our applications."
"Its resiliency can be improved. We're told that the best we can do with an on-prem solution is to have a hot standby that requires a manual switchover. So, it is a do-it-yourself Ikea model of maintaining data consistency between two servers, without having low balance or failover considerations for an on-prem solution."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"One of the new features is "impacted users." I would like to see a rate of impacted users. For example, how long has the problem been going on: 100 users in five minutes. Does that mean that in 3 hours if we don't get this solved, we're impacting x number of people? Understanding the rate at which the problem is impacting people would be a cool feature."
"It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications."
"We are still struggling a bit with finding an answer quickly."
"I find it is very difficult to train someone in using this application. As amazing as it can be, the learning curve is extensive."
"Ability to better identify SDQ script errors would be helpful."
"Bring the interface to the same level as OneAgent."
"I would like to have the ability to share live data with selected third parties so that they can see how their product is performing for our company."
"Configuring nodes and agents should be more like plug and play."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". AppDynamics is most compared with Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security, New Relic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Azure Monitor and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics vs. Dynatrace report.
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