We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Database Monitoring and Dynatrace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The good thing with AppDynamics Databases is that it will give you a pretty good overview of the data, all the database-like tables, long-running queries, jobs running on the databases, and the queries that are taking more time. So, it's at a deeper level with all the database functionalities, and you will get that information. So, it's a pretty good tool in that sense."
"Knowing which tables on the database were working the most was valuable. It helped the client understand where they need to focus. They streamlined a lot of their queries and brought the resource usage down. It helped them to find long-running queries. They rewrote them completely so that they don't take as long and the application performs better."
"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."
"AppDynamics is scalable. They can monitor billions of transactions because they're not monitoring all transactions. They're monitoring samples. So, they can offer good monitoring for the huge sites."
"The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."
"We were able to correct problems, which led to an increase in availability, time savings, and performance for our solutions."
"The feature that is most valuable to us is the snapshot feature. It allows us to get a snapshot of different SQL scripts that are being executed simultaneously and we can identify everything we need on them."
"The dashboards are very well-defined."
"My primary use of the tool is to keep revenue coming into the business and to use it to help our business team in running their site analytics and web performance tools. They have things like Adobe Analytics that provide them with one layer of data. We use Dynatrace as another railroad metric to both confirm the Adobe Analytics data and enhance it in certain places where Adobe won't give us the answers that we need. In terms of metrics, we've had roughly about 120,000 unique sessions per hour on our website. So, we're capturing a lot of session data and real user data, and all of that data is kept in user sessions. We can look this information up by user ID to tag any given session that we want to find by date/client. E.g., if the user said that they had an issue last Thursday at 11:00 PM, then we can just do a search on their email address, go through all their sessions, and find the one that they mentioned, then dig directly into that one."
"The dashboards are a really cool feature when I get to talking to clients. I ask them, "Why Dynatrace?" Because I need to push the tools that I have in my application. Then, they explain the monitoring of Dynatrace, saying the rate of the updates and features. They want to go with Dynatrace."
"We monitor end-to-end availability of the application and deep dive PurePath analysis of real user visits."
"Reduced incidents, as alert monitoring aids in quicker resolution of events."
"The agent deployment is the most valuable. You don't need to do any configuration. You just deploy the agents, and it can automatically detect your infrastructure. That was the greatest feature that we saw in Dynatrace. If there is any database, it can detect it automatically and present everything to you."
"We found Dynatrace is a robust tool which provides pretty good monitoring for a PCF environment"
"Provides bespoke dashboards and reports which help our business to grow."
"Dynatrace improved the resolution of problems by making it easier to find root causes and easier to predict bad system behaviour."
"I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility."
"The major concern lies with reports, specifically their configurability. It's like, if I want to combine multiple reports and generate them all at once, that's not possible. Even though there's a setup for generating 25 reports, I wanted to group them all and generate them in one go, which isn't currently feasible. I have to manually run each report and set the time for it."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."
"The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."
"The solution must improve security and setup."
"I would like the solution to be more customizable to meet our client's requirements."
"The user access management could be a bit better."
"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."
"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."
"It would help if Dynatrace allowed more features that work with metrics like Grafana or New Relic."
"I'd like to see self-healing and I'd also like to see more automation. It looks like is that's the direction Dynatrace is heading in, in their Dynatrace product."
"There is still a certain amount of technical skills needed to be able to understand what you are seeing on it. You also need a large amount of technical or infrastructure skills to understand how and where to install it."
"One thing I'm missing and that is the JMX from the MBeans, it's missing completely."
"I would like to see dashboards included, and maybe more possibilities in terms of customization."
"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."
"Graphically, it is not good."
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AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 16th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews. AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". 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 Database Monitoring is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Splunk Enterprise Security and AppDynamics, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor. See our AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. Dynatrace report.
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