We performed a comparison between Alluvio Aternity , Dynatrace, and Instana Dynamic APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."We've looked at the Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) to see how our digital experience compares to others who use the solution. We have used that to see how we are trending and it gives us some insight into areas that we might need to focus more on. That's helpful."
"It is useful for working out whether there are any issues in the network or between the endpoints. It is also useful for working out any performance issues. It has been useful for a lot of stuff around Teams. Our customers like to know what's happening with Teams when they call in. It is helpful for easily profiling users. It records all the applications that are being used for each user, and you can see what users are doing. It is very good in terms of performance. You don't have to wait forever to try and get reports or results. It is quite quick to get everything that you need out of the software."
"The infrastructure data, especially the CPU and memory data, is per second, which makes it outstanding as compared to other solutions. Its licensing cost is very low for us."
"The data collected by the agents on each end point is the most valuable feature for us."
"The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."
"Being able to proactively identify issues on user systems."
"The application response time. That's what our business has been having a problem with."
"The dashboards of this platform are the most valuable, especially the Desktop Health dashboard."
"The tool allows us to see if it is an infrastructural related issue and see what is affected right away."
"The solution can be deployed quickly on-prem. Once it's deployed, you can use discovery and review the process and service on this application."
"End-to-end visibility of the applications, since we have them instrumented. Understanding where the hotspots are in the applications."
"A monitoring system that can show us code level details."
"Dynatrace is a powerful tool for full stack monitoring with APM capabilities and AI root cause problem analysis. This helps our customers with their digital transformation and gaining insight into their infrastructure."
"Ease of problem detection and alerting, visual timeline, and user-sessions are some of the best features of Dynatrace."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform synthetic checks for monitoring sites using click paths."
"Service discovery with artificial intelligence automatic anomaly root cause detection, and problems replay."
"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."
"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"They've additionally added some great color coding, but they need to explain better and drive down further on the meanings of this workflow."
"When it comes to what is called creating signatures, it's not easy for a non-coding person for desktop applications. You need to run the recording and you need to have some exposure and knowledge. That is an area where they can improve. For web applications, they have the Web Activity Creator and that's an awesome and easy tool. Anybody can use it and capture the signatures. With the desktop applications it's a little more cumbersome and difficult."
"I would say the reporting capabilities of this product could use room for improvement."
"Reports were a lot easier in the older versions"
"I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great."
"Reliability: Issues interfering with the deployment and use of the product has made its use reduced in scope."
"When it comes to a lot of the features that I would want, they will tell you they are in their SaaS version, which we don't use... They put all the new features on the SaaS solution and that's where you get the latest and greatest stuff... Why not have those features available for on-prem users?"
"In terms of a new feature, it would be good if we could restrict a user to a specific application or server. We have several customers, and we have to set up one or two servers for each customer. We have to set up one server for production and one for the test environment. Each user at the customer level can see all applications and the data of all applications, which is not really useful and good. We should be able to restrict user access at the application level or server level."
"The user interface is complicated, but recent web versions are getting better all the time."
"Filters should have a “negative” option."
"The initial setup was relatively complex because we were trying to implement into environments that they did not yet support."
"The solution could improve on integration, cloud services, and making the configuration less difficult."
"One piece that we think that's missing is, there were thread names that were missing in analytical information in the Dynatrace solution, versus the AppMon solution. The AppMon solution gives you that information, and it is very helpful for connecting dots and bringing all the pieces together."
"Its infra monitoring is not that good. They are mainly into the APM environment, such as network monitoring and other things. Strong end-to-end infrastructure monitoring is missing. SNMP monitoring is currently not very good in this solution."
"It does not have mature enough dashboards."
"Regarding features, it would be good if there would be some features regarding app security."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
