We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Elastic Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Dynatrace is highly regarded for its advanced AI engine and ability to identify infrastructure automatically. It also offers session replay and impressive visualization features. Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Some Dynatrace reviewers feel the learning curve is a little steep, and the documentation could be clearer. Users say that Dynatrace should offer more security options and improve integration with other tools. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience.
Service and Support: Users generally found Dynatrace's customer service to be helpful and available, but some said that the response times and documentation have room for improvement. Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays.
Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup is simple, efficient, and requires minimal technical configuration. It takes a few hours at most. Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists.
Pricing: Users say Dynatrace is expensive. Some noted that the licensing model is complicated and not transparent. Some said they struggled to accurately predict the number of units needed. Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment.
ROI: Dynatrace users said the solutions saved them money and reduced downtime. Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support.
"We can report and monitor on specific use cases which could not be monitored with SAP or other tooling."
"The most valuable features are ease of deployment, UI, and collected data. Its deployment is really easy. In just a few hours, you can have a very good outcome, and you can see everything, which is very valuable. It collects a good amount of data."
"Being able to get down to the individual code level to see where transactions are taking time. It has helped troubleshoot issues immensely and other tools can't provide this."
"We have improved performance by 50% and determined conflicts in the application to eliminate errors."
"It is easy to see what areas you want to alert on and catch."
"Agentless Transaction Analysis allows my team to granularly decompose complex operations and flows for business applications."
"We spend less time on troubleshooting issues since Dynatrace proactively informs us of an impending bottle neck."
"Automatic instrumentation of new services and technology without the need to install specific agents or modules."
"The intelligence of the system has been very impressive. It's not quite AI, but the technical bit where it correlates information, based on the seen attacks within an organization is good."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"We've found the initial setup to be quite straightforward."
"I like that it's a SIEM platform. I like that I can sell Elastic Security quickly. Elastic Security has a large community that can support users."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"When the tool ingests data from other tools, being able to correlate those with the existing topology, so that the AI engine can draw more conclusions in case Dynatrace does not monitor those instances."
"I would also like to see it baselining more metrics out-of-the-box. We have a lot of rich data, but if someone says, "Well how did that look last week?" If you're looking at a problem and you see, for example, a long SQL statement, is that the root cause, or is it always slow. it's difficult to get historical data."
"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."
"I think Dynatrace needs improvements with respect to reporting; not just performance, but the business-level reports."
"Its infra monitoring is not that good. They are mainly into the APM environment, such as network monitoring and other things. Strong end-to-end infrastructure monitoring is missing. SNMP monitoring is currently not very good in this solution."
"Cloud monitoring and reporting need improvement, as well as how to manipulate data and export it to share with business executives."
"PurePath exports was a great feature in AppMon, but it is sometimes missing in Dynatrace."
"I find it is very difficult to train someone in using this application. As amazing as it can be, the learning curve is extensive."
"This type of monitoring is not very mature just yet. We need more real-time information in a way that's easier to manage."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"Elastic Security's maintenance is hard and its scalability is a challenge. There are complications in scaling and upgrading. The solution needs to also provide periodic upgrade checks."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"An area for improvement in Elastic Security is the pricing. It could be better. Right now, when you increase the volume of logs to be collected, the price also increases a lot."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 340 reviews while Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Elastic Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Dynatrace vs. Elastic Security report.
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