Dynatrace vs Splunk AppDynamics vs eG Enterprise comparison

Dynatrace and eg Innovations are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Dynatrace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.7, while eg Innovations is ranked #57. Dynatrace holds a 6.3% mindshare in APM, compared to eg Innovations’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of eg Innovations users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

Splunk AppDynamics

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91% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 6.3%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of eG Enterprise is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 3.7%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dynatrace	6.3%
Splunk AppDynamics	3.7%
eG Enterprise	0.7%
Other	89.3%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

AI-driven insights have reduced downtime and improved cross-team collaboration

We encountered some challenges while using Dynatrace. Although the initial setup was smooth, fine-tuning alert thresholds and custom metrics took some time. Another challenge was that Dynatrace charges based on host units, so we had to carefully plan our agent deployments. The licensing model is expensive. Additionally, the complexity of setup is an issue. While OneAgent and auto-discover services are powerful, the setup is more complex compared to other tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. These integrations are simple and basic, but Dynatrace setup requires more complexity based on the environment. For new users wanting to use Dynatrace, it is difficult. However, the AI-related solutions and metrics took us to the next level for identifying and fixing things. Dynatrace requires an agent for operation. OneAgent is powerful, but it is also resource-heavy. On lightweight nodes or older systems, the agent can slightly impact performance. If Dynatrace could implement a lightweight agent behavior, we could make things faster. Additionally, if Dynatrace could add a long-term retention policy so that we could store more data and find fine-grained details, that would help us. While Dynatrace managed edition supports on-premises deployment, the SaaS version depends on cloud connectivity. For highly regulated or air-gapped environments, setup and updates can be challenging. Although the initial setup is smooth, if someone wants to fine-tune it and fully understand the tool end-to-end, it could be tricky.

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Jose Ramon Crespo

Senior Enterprise Director at Towers IT

Utilize artificial intelligence for faster issue response and seamless ITSM integration

The data gathering capabilities and the automation, which utilizes artificial intelligence, are the most valuable features. These capabilities help us gather more information and analyze it faster, leading to better responses to issues. The tool is also excellent at integrating with ITSM services, providing a seamless alerting system for our customers.

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DevendraKumar1

Technology lead at Infosys

Has enabled us to detect issues instantly through alerts and monitor every service from a single dashboard

Splunk requires significantly more improvements compared to Splunk AppDynamics, specifically regarding the licensing aspect. Splunk renews licenses every six months, which is inconvenient. It would be better to have a one-year license to avoid needing to update keys constantly, which can only occur on weekends, making it a burdensome task. Although Splunk is better for certain use cases, Splunk AppDynamics is broader in functionality. Specifically, I want enhancements related to creating dashboards not only for logs or minor services but also for configuration levels, allowing us to check configurations immediately without manually opening the entire code when exceptions arise—a feature I wish to see improved in Splunk, although it may not be necessary for Splunk AppDynamics.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"PurePath gives a lot of flexibility in identifying issues and finding the flow of execution."

"Dynatrace offers exceptional features compared to other monitoring tools."

"It is easy to see what areas you want to alert on and catch."

"The ability to create any dashboard that you want for different levels of reporting for technical people, managers, or even executive level. They can get a one page view of what the system health and performance looks like."

"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."

"The alerting systems are definitely the most valuable feature. The AI engine, "Davis," has proved to be a game-changer for us, as it helps to alert us when there are anomalies found in our applications or in their performance... letting the Davis engine find those anomalies and push them to the top, especially as they relate to business impact, is very valuable to us."

"I like the PurePaths dashlet the most. This is mostly because as soon I open the PurePaths dashlet and sort by response time, there is the problem. Every time."

"It can give a quick overview of the current health status, end to end, and can quickly point to the root cause if there an issue or problem in one of our applications."

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"Enormous capability to monitor Citrix environments."

"The most important feature is the ability to design, then implement monitoring tests on the fly as we are adapting to different situations."

"Single pane of glass to review status of the full environment."

"The ability to see what the end user response is, so I can get a better understanding of what the end user is seeing when they connect to the Citrix servers."

"Sometimes when we face issues with the new technologies or very old technologies where we cannot enhance the service, they move to work with us directly and start doing some development on this area which is very good for us."

"The topology view which provides a visual representation of a service and quickly allows identification of errors or degraded performance."

"The product is simple to use."

"It gives good insight into inside of what's going on with Exchange."

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"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ability to discover and track transactions."

"The product is stable and the technical support is good."

"The feature that I appreciate in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is the intuitive and user-friendly dynamic mapping it creates for workflows."

"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."

"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."

"We are able to correlate performance between tiers."

"We have seen application availability increase, and there is a twenty-five percent reduction of the application downtime."

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Cons

"I would like to know if classes and methods selected in "Method Sensor Rules" were changed in the applications, and not depend on the developers to warn us."

"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."

"Make sure older frameworks, like PHP 5.3, are supported."

"We have multiple tenants. If you have them up at the same time, you can't see in the UI which tenant you're in. It doesn't tell you."

"The extending of Dynatrace with plugins can be better."

"One of the features that we are lacking is on the reports side. We don't have much reporting available. And the dashboards. I checked on their blog and they said that they are working on the dashboard front where you can create the dashboards. We do have dashboards available. They said they are bringing in a lot of things there, so I'm looking forward to that, on reports."

"Needs more compatibility of platforms out-of-the-box."

"This solution could be improved with better compatibility with legacy applications."

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"There should be more price flexibility to adapt to different kinds of customers. For small and medium businesses, eG Enterprise is usually too expensive."

"The integration must be improved."

"would like to see improvements in the alarm display console."

"Back-end configuration is not easy to implement."

"The UI looks a little dated and could do with a refresh."

"Dashboards are difficult to create, and not so useful."

"The solution should improve on the security side and include some more API integrations into wider application platforms."

"The interface could be improved as it is not real intuitive. It is not user-friendly."

More eG Enterprise cons

"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution."

"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."

"If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions."

"The solution needs to support IBM products."

"The setup, implementation and use are clumsy and need to be refined."

"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."

"The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."

"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We found a tool that can be utilized by testing, DevOps, marketing, software engineering, and monitoring. Before, we always had everybody doing their own thing. Now, everybody's utilizing one tool, which is huge. That is a huge savings."

"Consider volume because that is where you will get the most benefit. Doing a point solution is not cost-effective."

"The pricing is not bad, but it could be better."

"Time to value was surprisingly fast."

"The limitations I see are more to do - and maybe it's because of the nature of the job I have - but they have to do with pricing. It's a little bit pricey. It's a very good tool. It's worth the price, to a certain degree. But it's hard to justify when it's that costly."

"The product is really fast to implement and gives customers instant value. This is important, because it reduces costs on the implementation."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace is excellent."

"Look at the product and the product features, not the price. Too often people look at the price and turn away. Dynatrace costs a little bit more than the other products I researched, but it can do far more."

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"If using eG for virtual desktops, carefully calculate whether per named user, per concurrent user, or per server"

"There are two licensing options: Perpetual and SaaS-based. The main offering, in terms of what eG prefers to offer, is the subscription-based rather than the Perpetual License. The price could be cheaper."

"They are aligned with other enterprise solutions."

"It is not expensive."

"We paid about 300,000 Saudi Riyal for the solution and it was quite affordable compared to the competition."

"They gave us a good price, when they were found out we were looking at other products because their price was very high. We were looking at another solution, then we came back to them was because they brought the price down. We selected them for three years."

"eG Enterprise is much cheaper than the other products it competes with."

"The product is very cheap."

More eG Enterprise pricing and cost advice

"AppDynamics is one of the most expensive solutions on the market."

"AppDynamics is an expensive solution."

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

"We have a license-based solution. That means you need a license for each server you monitor."

"The cost is prohibitive."

"This solution is not the cheapest but it works well. You will end up doing more work with a cheaper solution than if you just spent the extra money on a better solution like this one."

"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."

"I believe there was probably an extra charge whenever I wanted to contact the support team."

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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

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Retailer

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	78
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	298

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	55
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	194

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if yo...

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What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire sta...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems,...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

Could you please share your requirements ? There are a lot tools can be added to the list. I spent almost 6 months to...

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Do you recommend eG Enterprise? Why or why not?

I feel that eG Enterprise is one of the top APM tools available on the market. Out of the solutions I have tried, it ...

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What do you like most about eG Enterprise?

eG Enterprise has a single pane of glass for observability and monitoring.

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What do you like most about AppDynamics?

The solution saves time and cost.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. The solution is highly expensive. Our company pays for the solution on ...

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What needs improvement with AppDynamics?

The solution is available at an inflated cost.

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Comparisons

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New Relic vs Dynatrace

Compared 6% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Dynatrace

Compared 4% of the time

Azure Monitor vs Dynatrace

Compared 3% of the time

Instana Dynamic APM vs Dynatrace

Compared 2% of the time

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PRTG Network Monitor vs eG Enterprise

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SolarWinds NPM vs eG Enterprise

Compared 8% of the time

LogicMonitor vs eG Enterprise

Compared 7% of the time

Citrix uberAgent Monitoring vs eG Enterprise

Compared 3% of the time

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New Relic vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 7% of the time

Datadog vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 6% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 5% of the time

PRTG Network Monitor vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 3% of the time

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor vs Splunk AppDynamics

Compared 2% of the time

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Overview

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."

Dynatrace

eG Enterprise is a comprehensive performance monitoring tool that monitors applications, infrastructure, and networks. eG Enterprise offers a complete performance management solution that delivers diagnosis and automated IT auditing, and offers extensive reporting to test application latencies, storage hotspots, network failures, server incompetencies, bottlenecks, user experience (UX) concerns, and more.

eG Enterprise monitors an organization’s total IT ecosystem and applications throughout every layer and all tiers and will take a deep dive to discover where a problem began, faster than any other solution. eG Enterprise is a complete solution that thoroughly monitors the end-user relationship for just about every IT deployment available, such as cloud-based microservices applications, enterprise applications, on-premise monolithic applications, and digital workspaces.

eG Enterprise is a flexible solution and can be deployed in various circumstances, wherever the digital experience of the user needs to be managed and IT infrastructures and applications need to be monitored. eG Enterprise is effective from legacy on-premise deployments to the most cloud-centric ecosystem in the marketplace today.

eG Enterprise Features

Application Performance Monitoring (APM): The solution is able to provide monitoring to discover, diagnose, and repair application performance problems so the end user is never affected.
Infrastructure monitoring: Users have full transparency to clearly visualize what is occurring with recent deployments and immediately diagnose network, database, and server problems.
Digital workspace monitoring: Workspaces are continually monitored to maintain the highest levels of productivity at all times. Users can easily monitor disconnects, logons, slowdowns, complete sessions, and more.
Enterprise application monitoring: Applications that do not perform as expected may result in significant losses for an organization. eG Enterprise is able to monitor many of today’s popular applications, such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Sharepoint, Siebel, and Office 365. Organizations are able to quickly identify underperforming applications, discover and diagnose problems, and remediate issues to ensure that optimal levels of productivity and profitability are being maintained at all times.
Cloud Monitoring: eG Enterprise provides effective monitoring for all of an organization's cloud infrastructures, including public, hybrid and private. eG Enterprise is able to facilitate the concise mapping of the relationships between tiers and discover the reasons for performance problems immediately before they reach the end user. eG Enterprise can be deployed on premises or as a SaaS-based solution.

Reviews from Real Users

“The product makes data collection easy. It's simple to set up. The algorithm is the most valuable aspect of the solution. In a few minutes after the installations, we can get insights from my technical environment. After a few minutes, I can get some valuable insights to make decisions.” - Anderson L., LatAm Presales Analyst at CLM

“Some of the best features of eG are, in terms of APM, they have complete modules between application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and even storage and network-based monitoring. The UI is also quite good. They have some standard AI-based capabilities, even though it's not quite as advanced when compared to Dynatrace. eG has some good, basic APM capabilities.” - A PeerSpot user who is a Consultant at a tech services company

eg Innovations

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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Sample Customers

Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express

20th Century Fox, Allscripts, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Aviva, AXA, Biogen, Cox Communications, Denver Health, eBay, JP Morgan Chase, PayPal, Southern California Edison, Samsung, and many more.

Cisco, Sony, Nasdaq, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Edmunds.com, Puma, Fox News, DirecTV, Pizza Hut, T-Systems, Cornell University, OpenTable, BITMARCK, Green Mountain Power, Care.com, Overstock, Paddy Power, eHarmony, Kraft, The Motley Fool, The Container Store, and more See more customers

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