Aternity AppInternals [EOL] vs Dynatrace vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

Aternity AppInternals [EOL]

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PAUL JOSEPHS

Security & Performance Analytics Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Points out the relevant problems in the enterprise and it's easy to understand

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 I would like for it to have automated updates, the way the product updates itself should be all automated, as opposed to what it…

Provides a comprehensive view by integrating with other monitoring systems

Anand_Kumar

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

There may be an issue since there are many tools like Splunk involved in network monitoring. From an IP perspective, Dynatrace is performing well. If they want to develop in network monitoring, they can, as it's part of their product line. It's not rocketry, so they can accomplish it. If I, as an SI, look at it from an enterprise perspective, considering the cost from the client, I prefer not to go with multiple systems, as they don't provide a complete 360-degree view. They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system. The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.

Application performance management and error resolution improved with data-driven insights

Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

Dynatrace has multiple functions compared to Splunk AppDynamics, so Splunk AppDynamics should add those functions, which are not available as of now. Dynatrace has a universal agent that collects all information related to their CI, and if one CI has multiple languages, then there is no need to instrument multiple agents. However, Splunk AppDynamics requires multiple agents; if I have one server with multiple applications in different languages, then I need to instrument different agents for each application. Splunk AppDynamics should work with Dynatrace with one single universal agent that works with all application languages, eliminating the need for multiple implementations.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Browsermetrix, which is real-user monitoring via JS injection and linked back to TTW via cookie. It allows us to see the experience of every user hitting our sites and analyze performance by region, browser, etc."

"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."

"Clicks to root cause - fast & easy to diagnose and deep-dive"

"Transaction Tracing is the most useful. Being able to have the transaction stitched together so we can see where the problem is has proven invaluable."

"We just control on the backend of AppInternals what we want to instrument and what we don't want to instrument."

"I like it that one can match IPs with the application name."

"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."

"Synthetic transactions, WMI and SNMP query capability."

"Reduces the amount of knowledge that is needed by applications consuming this data."

"It helps us get to the resolution quicker, and potentially the root cause, and at least understand what is happening for future identification."

"The memory dumps, the tracing, and PurePath. All the tracing that you can do with the tool is, for us, our life. It's our daily job and it saves us a lot of time looking for performance issues."

"It identifies problem areas and performance issues."

"We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class"

"Dynatrace helps us to improve overall performance and allows us to detect the root cause of an outbreak on our systems."

"I can review behaviors, trending issues, and resolve issues before they impact our clients."

"We had point solutions where we could see different elements of the stack, and Dynatrace ties everything together. Before, we could never get that full-stack monitoring. It also helps us get us the context of the customer experience. What's the business impact of those problems?"

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"Splunk AppDynamics helps us in identifying bottlenecks and providing fine-tuning recommendations."

"The feature we find most valuable, is that the solution creates a unified platform making it really easy to pinpoint a problem, and then drill down into a transaction to resolve the issue."

"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."

"The most valuable feature is that we can see how our end-users are interacting with our application across regions."

"It provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base."

"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."

"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."

"It is used to test customer behavior on a website."

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Cons

"The admin dashboard could be easier as it takes a little bit of time to get used to it."

"We'd like to be able to find out performance problems on application class and methods."

"The recording mechanism for synthetic transactions could be improved as well."

"They should find a way for report generation from TTW to run quicker."

"Support for PHP, DB and other applications need to be supported."

"The technical support is not very good and should be improved."

"Deployment and agent patch management is not managed centrally, resulting in a large level of effort to update."

"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."

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"Monitoring asynchronous code requires manual instrumentation (most of the time)."

"The customer support is not quick and helpful at this stage. We are deploying Dynatrace into our network. I've raised a couple of technical questions with the support team but the response was not fast and didn't cover all my questions at all."

"The one thing people really liked that we can do in AppMon is executive dashboards and, until recently, you couldn't even create the business transactions you need for the data at the back-end of those dashboards. But if I had to ask for one thing it would be: In the new platform, give me the ability to do dashboarding in the way it's done in AppMon, and I think that would bridge a lot of the missing pieces. If I could do the same type of executive dashboards on the walls, they would be happy."

"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."

"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."

"I would like better plugin support, because they are constantly asking us to do plugins, saying "Yeah, we can do that. Use this plugin." Then, the moment something goes wrong with that plugin, I have no way of getting help."

"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."

"For AppMon, there is always room for improvement: charting, dashboarding, and user management."

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"There could log management features included in the product."

"I would like them to change their business model for scalability to accommodate growing companies. The business model should be more flexible."

"Improvements can be made in the area of AI integration."

"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."

"Things are being done differently in the industry now, and many of these problems are being solved with cloud databases."

"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing model is expensive compared to its competitors, but the service it gives to your business, and the data quality, means that it's worth it."

"The licensing model for v9 is better where it is an individual license per server, while v10 licenses are per JVM/ .NET and server instance. The latter model appears to be the model that other APM vendors are using."

"The product is pricey, but it is feature-rich, which is why we probably haven't looked away from it."

"Setup cost is very low considering that it is an almost totally, automatic process."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was a pretty straightforward process. We had no hiccups."

"The only limitation with scaling to cloud-native environments is licensing. It all depends on how many DEM units you're willing to license. The more of DEM units that you purchase, the more user data you can collect."

"Its license is a bit expensive. We renew it yearly."

"There are additional Professional Services costs which ensure the solution is configured with meaningful names so you're getting the most money for your investment."

"Pricing can be high, especially for Portuguese standards. But as one says, you get what you pay for."

"The product is superior to others, but it comes with a price tag that is often difficult to position back to clients."

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"It could be a bit lower, but looking at the scalability, functionality, and other things, you can understand why AppDynamics is so expensive as compared to some of the cheaper products that don't have that full single pane of glass they've got. Dynatrace has got three different elements that you need to log into just to get a full view, which is not so good, and because of that, it is a bit cheaper."

"The licensing scheme is very complex. They need to make it easier."

"AppDynamics offers a yearly basis license."

"We have two different licensing models for this solution. One of them is the agent based model, which requires payment per agent. The other is an infrastructure based model, where the price is based on the CPU core. For the infrastructure model wholesale level pricing applies. All of the up to date licensing prices for this product are available on the manufacturers website."

"The solution is highly expensive"

"Purchasing the product through the AWS Marketplace was good."

"There is a license to use this solution. However, the clients pay for the licenses we are the service provider."

"I would say the solution is affordable because it is widely used across financial service sectors."

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Comparison Review

ITspe9886

IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees

Feb 24, 2019

Compared to AppDynamics where we are still trying to get it into production, we had the latest version of Dynatrace in production within three days

Our primary use case for both Dynatrace and AppDynamics is for application performance monitoring (APM). The main reason for having application performance monitoring is, when we see something is running slowly, we can immediately look to see where the issue is at before our systems crash on us…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	7

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	76
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	288

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	54
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	188

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Overview

Simplified high-definition APM visibility leveraging Real User Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, and OpenTelemetry, that is scalable, easy to use and deploy, and unifies insights across end users, applications, networks, and the cloud-native ecosystem

Riverbed

Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.

Dynatrace offers an all-in-one automated artificial intelligence solution that brings together application performance, cloud and infrastructure, and digital experience monitoring. Dynatrace accelerates performance-driven results through operations, development, and business teams with a shared metrics platform. In addition, users are provided a full-stack monitoring experience with three patented technologies:

Smartscape - visualization mechanism that maps the totality of everything working in your environment and detects any casual dependencies between your applications, processes, websites, services, hosts, cloud infrastructure, and networks.
OneAgent - a technology that analyzes, gathers ,and unifies all business performance metrics throughout every layer of your technology stack.
PurePath Technology - code-level context and timings are captured from the mainframe to the cloud for all end-to-end transactions.

What does Dynatrace offer?

Dynatrace redefines how organizations monitor their digital ecosystems. The solution offers:

Cloud Automation: With AI engine Davis®, users can see the exact reason for problems and facilitate quick auto-remediation and intelligent cloud orchestration.
Application Security: With automated application vulnerability management, users can deliver applications faster and more securely.
Infrastructure Monitoring: Convenient broad visibility across your environments is provided with streamlined, automated infrastructure monitoring.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Optimize your applications, provide better support, and improve user experience with a combination of Real User Monitoring (RUM), Session Replay, and synthetic monitoring throughout your environment.
Applications and Microservices: For complex cloud environments, Dynatrace can automatically provide visibility and root-cause answers. It can also monitor microservices.
Digital Business Analytics: Get AI-powered, real-time answers to analytical business queries with KPIs and metrics that are already flowing through applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Dynatrace is the only solution that provides answers to organizations based on deep insight into each user, transaction, and organization's environment.

Barry P., a managing performance engineer at Medica Health Plans, writes, "With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place."

A consultant at a tech service company notes, "A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."

Splunk AppDynamics enhances application performance monitoring with advanced diagnostics and real-time insights, offering seamless end-to-end transaction tracking and infrastructure visibility.

AppDynamics provides critical tools for businesses to analyze application behavior and performance. Through innovative features like transaction snapshot analysis and adaptable dashboards, users can quickly identify and address issues, ensuring high levels of system uptime and efficiency. It is designed to support complex environments including Kubernetes and AWS, enhancing user experience by detecting performance issues early. Despite needing improvements in network monitoring and integration, it remains a robust option for tracking application health.

What are the key features of AppDynamics?

Real-time Performance Monitoring: Offers immediate insights into application behavior.
Business Transaction Tracking: Tracks transactions from start to finish for bottleneck identification.
JVM Memory Monitoring: Provides detailed JVM metrics and memory use information.
Deep-dive Diagnostics: Enables in-depth analysis of code and stack traces.
Adaptable Dashboards: Customizable views for better data interpretation.

How does AppDynamics benefit users?

Improved Incident Resolution: Faster problem detection and solution implementation.
Enhanced Application Performance: Real-time monitoring optimizes system operations.
Comprehensive Visibility: Provides a full view of application infrastructure.
Informed Decision Making: Detailed analytics guide performance improvements.
Customer Satisfaction: Enhances user experience through faster issue resolutions.

In industries like financial services and e-commerce, AppDynamics facilitates performance tracking across distributed systems, optimizing infrastructure to meet consumer demands. It excels in environments needing precise transaction monitoring and is pivotal in delivering high value and satisfaction.

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