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."The product is very useful to find problems in middleware for the application servers, especially agent instrumentation and management is user friendly."
"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."
"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."
"Clicks to root cause - fast & easy to diagnose and deep-dive"
"I like it that one can match IPs with the application name."
"We just control on the backend of AppInternals what we want to instrument and what we don't want to instrument."
"Synthetic transactions, WMI and SNMP query capability."
"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."
"You can see every step a transaction goes through, which servers it hits, and what technology it uses."
"It gives us visibility into the product and what we are doing operationally."
"The dashboard allows us to monitor and proactively act upon any breaches in the threshold for our infrastructure."
"This tool helps us gather information from all hosts and services, then cross reference the information."
"Dynatrace helps us to improve overall performance and allows us to detect the root cause of an outbreak on our systems."
"Mean time to root cause analysis decreased drastically."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Understanding how the user was being targeted by the application as well as knowing their behavior using those applications."
"It would be great if the solution could offer fixed bundles and more features."
"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."
"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 recording mechanism for synthetic transactions could be improved as well."
"The technical support is not very good and should be improved."
"They should find a way for report generation from TTW to run quicker."
"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."
"JIRA integration should be enriched and more granular."
"I think at times AppMon has given some folks some headaches from a configuration standpoint, and a maintenance standpoint, but aside from that I don't think they've really had many headaches with it."
"Dashboarding and having different templates available for more business reporting, or even other metrics, would be useful."
"They could spend more time and effort in creating brand awareness."
"Sometimes we have issues with the code on their side. We like to get it fixed."
"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."
"Provide much better alignment between AppMon and Dynatrace."
"Every time I want to see the PurePath, I have to launch the client. It would be helpful if they introduced this in the browser application."
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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.