We performed a comparison between Aternity AppInternals [EOL] and Dynatrace 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."As an Administrator, before we bought this AppInternals, I didn't have visibility on why items were slow or why an application was not running. This gives us the ability to see what's going on. The application is load balancing. We can now see if its own server has issues or just one specific server has issues."
"I like it that one can match IPs with the application name."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the integration with their other systems. It's easy to understand and it points out the relevant problems in the enterprise."
"The capability of analysing each individual transaction captured to a very low level detail (method call/line of code)."
"The product is very useful to find problems in middleware for the application servers, especially agent instrumentation and management is user friendly."
"Clicks to root cause - fast & easy to diagnose and deep-dive"
"Synthetic transactions, WMI and SNMP query capability."
"We just control on the backend of AppInternals what we want to instrument and what we don't want to instrument."
"It is our main SaaS monitoring and alerting solution, and it allows us to identify many problems that we would miss if we did not have a comprehensive monitoring solution."
"You can do deep dive analysis and find root cause quickly."
"We also use it in our performance testing. We found an issue that way, and we would have put that change live without Dynatrace. Finding that problem in "live", that would have been three or four days of investigation, whereas we found the issue, fixed the issue, reran the tests, all same day."
"The full stack - Everything from the browser, all the way back to the database, and being able to see everything, and really narrow in very quickly on what is the root cause."
"This tool has been essential for monitoring our systems, gathering all performance data, and helping to quickly resolve difficult problems affecting our customers ability to process their work through our systems."
"Being able to drill down into the PurePaths to get to a solution is key for us."
"We are using it on most of our platforms, which are on a big scale and across the globe."
"We found Dynatrace is a robust tool which provides pretty good monitoring for a PCF environment"
"Support for PHP, DB and other applications need to be supported."
"The admin dashboard could be easier as it takes a little bit of time to get used to it."
"The technical support is not very good and should be improved."
"The recording mechanism for synthetic transactions could be improved as well."
"We'd like to be able to find out performance problems on application class and methods."
"They should find a way for report generation from TTW to run quicker."
"We have put in a request as an enhancement that we would like to search for items. If we're searching for a URL and we want to know was it a get or was it a post."
"I would like for it to have automated updates, the way the product updates itself should be all automated, as opposed to what it is now."
"It needs certain UI changes to make going back to certain Windows easier. Certain windows open up in a different category with different set values and throw you off if you are not used to it."
"We would also like to see all the good data in a single view across multiple tools, so that access to integration is critical."
"The AI is not that intelligent and there are different places where it could be even more automated."
"They could also, develop an observability platform where you could have the ability to inject events, locks, and traces."
"Scalability-wise, on the data side, I'm really worried because they are giving only seven days data retention. They should plan something on that, to increase the data."
"We have had some struggles with scaling. We were on AppMon, and AppMon has its own monolithic drawbacks."
"Dynatrace could be improved by having a fully functional applications and infrastructure monitoring feature. Their existing stack, which is SNMP-based, does not have full infrastructure monitoring, whereas if we compare it with other solutions like New Relic or Datadog, they have moved into infrastructure monitoring. The second improvement I would suggest is in regards to the cost. So far, Dynatrace is the most expensive APM that we sell, even compared to New Relic. I think they can improve a little bit in terms of the license pricing."
"It needs improvement with proprietary protocols for the DC RUM part."
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Aternity AppInternals [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews. Aternity AppInternals [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Aternity AppInternals [EOL] writes "We use it to see the experience of users hitting our sites and analyze performance by region, browser, etc". 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". Aternity AppInternals [EOL] is most compared with IDERA Precise, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor.
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i don't 100% agree what @Scott mention.
1st - Please refer to the latest Magic Quadrant NPM & APM
Dynatrace is good in APM space but Riverbed is offering end to end monitoring in NPM & APM space and the latest acquisition Aternity expands Riverbed’s SteelCentral offerings up to the end users performance monitoring level wish i personally love it.
Traditional solutions base in DC to analyse packet and from the packet turn into end users performance monitoring however with the Riverbed Aternity is provide a real end point monitoring rather than monitoring in DC.
Back to the APM solutions, since the question is more on AppInternal & Dynatrace
the main differentiation is the language code , depending which applications that you require to monitor and what language code is the application using.
Dynatrace -Supports .NET, J2EE, PHP, Mainframe, Hadoop
Riverbed - Supports .NET and Java - thats all
Instruments .NET and Java Runtime environments to give you access to actual code
Others technical differentiation will post to you later
Riverbed is more of an NPM probe-based offering and only has a moderate level of application awareness. It is more aligned with Dynatrace’s DCRUM offering competitively. https://www.dynatrace.com/topics/performance-test/data-center-monitoring/
At some point our DCRUM will be integrated into the Dynatrace product, so one great thing coming is you will truly have a single platform/pane of glass for everyone down to the full network detail. For now, it is still a separate entity.
Although Riverbed offers strong NETWORK analytics, it is not going to provide the application layer detail and provide a holistic all in one offering like Dynatrace does with RUM, webchecks, cloud, containers, network, infrastructure. It also samples and doesn’t provide a high fidelity of data. Dynatrace looks at every transaction, so we offer gap-free visibility into performance, bottlenecks, and issues. This is also important if you want to understand user and performance trends and understand where to align resources and focus on areas of development. With Riverbed, you’ll be making a lot of assumptions based on their sampling/averages output.
It’s going to take you a month plus to evaluate it…minimum. It takes weeks to set it up and configure. And the cost of services to get installed and trained is costly. So ease of use with what you evaluated is not comparable. Dynatrace installs in 3 mins or less and our ROI is typically within 2-3 months.
Maintenance of Riverbed is huge. Dynatrace is automatic in providing releases and upgrades, zero maintenance. Riverbed is going to require taking things off line, doing the updates, and putting things back on line. Lots of manual effort.
Riverbed strongly emphasizes packet capture capabilities so it’s appealing to the network team. It captures and records everything from the wire and applies very light weight analytics. It’s a very reactive approach. If you want to apply the application layer information into the networking piece, you will be purchasing and managing multiple components instead of just one with Dynatrace.
Dynatrace is application centric however it does provide some network analytics in relation to the performance of the applications it’s monitoring; This is like comparing an apple to a banana.
So, for me, the top areas in which Dynatrace is better:
• Ease of use, zero maintenance
• Higher fidelity of data with Dynatrace-no sampling, aggregates or averages like you’d get from Riverbed.
• Quicker ROI and user adoption
• We show you every user, every app, everywhere. We provide gap free data from end-user, code, infrastructure, network. No blind spots, no samples, no averages. So no matter what device you are operating on, we’ll provide gap free visibility into performance.
• Zero manual configuration. Just install one agent per host, we monitor everything.
• AI gives you auto-everything. Automates, discovery, modelling, analysis, troubleshooting and stops you from having to figure this all out manually.
• Automated root cause analysis. Avoid alert storms, get one single notification.
• Seamless integration for cloud and containers.
Similarly Optier, another great technology innovator in APM, pioneered the use of advanced analytics in the space, didn’t suffer from vision or technology. The issues were once again the leadership outside of the technical parts of the organization. Having raised well over $100m in the last 9 years the company never kept pace with the changes in the market. Optier has finally closed their doors as of yesterday, really sad to see that the transformation from on premise heavy enterprise software to SaaS was not happening fast enough to fix the cash situation. Hopefully someone will acquire some of these great assets and possibly see the transformation through.
I am not familiar with app internals. We have adopted Dynatrace. Its sadly not as simple as Scott makes out though. In the case of app like BizTalk, you need to map the app pools and IIS services. One agent doesn't do everything, there are agents for each of the apps and a DB agent will not give you all the host metrics.
That said, it is a great tool and does all we need it to do for some of the reasons mentioned above around one tool that covers EUM, APM and a Network Probe and the ability to easily dril down to the most granular detail.
I am not familiar with these two anymore. I'm sure you can Google around as well as I can for general impressions, pricing, etc.
I'll offer a bit of process guidance, though: Read the Release Notes for the latest version of each product. That will indicate what each company finds significant, and you can judge how well that aligns with the needs of your platform and your mgmt.