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.
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"It is a stable solution."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"AppDynamics makes it much easier for us to detect problems or issues before they become problems. We have alerting on all of our business transactions."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"It gives more visibility into all the coding (the black screen). It gives a nice screen. You can see ups and downs. You can see where the traffic is getting impacted, more on the convergence side."
"The Dynatrace solution has an important role in optimizing application code and SQL queries for customer solutions."
"With PurePath, I am able to find the root cause of the error or bug existing in our system."
"Quick root cause analysis"
"The proactive monitoring that we can do with Dynatrace where it is 24/7 on with all the user experience indexed and everything coming into us."
"PurePath gives a lot of flexibility in identifying issues and finding the flow of execution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Email alert and mobile app alert are very useful for informing the team that something is going wrong."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"We need more AI in the product to avoid manual analysis."
"Enterprise Synthetic of DC RUM can be made more robust."
"I'd like to see more agents ready to be deployed. I know that it's possible to develop integration with Dynatrace API, but in day-to-day operations it's hard to do that kind of customization. So if they had more agents for more platforms and more applications, I think it would be better."
"The challenge with AppMon is, what if you don't have an AppMon agent on a host, but it talks to the database. It talks to it, but I don't have either a host agent or an AppMon agent on it. That has been a challenge, but I believe the Dynatrace agent, the OneAgent, will solve that, potentially."
"Dynatrace has APIs, but they are unfriendly APIs. If they were friendly like Splunk or Sumo Logic had, we might integrate that same data on a single webpage, then start showing these internally."
"The usability is worse than it used to be."
"When compared with other tools, the experience needs improvement. I would like them to build out the interactions and make them friendlier."
"It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern."
AppDynamics is ranked 2nd in Container Monitoring with 153 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 1st in Container Monitoring with 340 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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