We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Azure Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dynatrace is a better option than Azure Monitor, as it offers more advanced monitoring features such as real user tracking, AIOps automation, Kubernetes module, and session replay, along with a user-friendly interface, good AI capabilities, and easy deployment. In contrast, Azure Monitor is easy to set up and maintain but lacks visualization and integration with third-party services, and needs more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence for event correlation. Dynatrace also provides better ROI through cost savings from automation and decreased mean time to identification and repair.
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The user interface is like a type of dashboard. You can use the tool as an end user into the tool interface, which is good."
"Often, we are busy working on other tasks when something goes wrong with the site. Getting timely alerts is very important to our needs as a business."
"Once you are trained on the solution, it's easy to navigate. It's got very good documentation and training offerings."
"Since things are getting more complicated, it is nice to have artificial intelligence to correlate issues and events to come up with root cause."
"The most valuable features for us include problem detection, root cause identification, Smartscape, and integration with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc."
"24/7, all transactions: The fact that every transaction is captured gives us the possibility of acting on every exception. But it also shows us what happens when everything works well, so we can compare it with the moment something goes wrong."
"We have been capturing all the information and evaluating whether it can be improved or not."
"Since we have been receiving alerts from Dynatrace, we go ahead and fix them without the user knowing about them."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"We are waiting on the new features to see how they perform."
"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."
"It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern."
"There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit."
"An additional feature that we could use is the rollover. If we could rollover to different datacenters, then it would satisfy our requirement. I.e., if one datacenter fails, then we could rollover to another datacenter."
"The initial setup was challenging for us. However, it was complex until you grasped the nuances of the product and the building blocks."
"I would like to have something more along the lines of the old DC RUM, because we have lot of clients with old technologies, legacy technology, and we really want to integrate it with Dynatrace so that they can use just one single product. So, it needs better integration with legacy products."
"I believe that something related to IoT devices should be improved."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Dynatrace is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". 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". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Prometheus, Sentry, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Observability. See our Azure Monitor vs. Dynatrace report.
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