We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Grafana Loki based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can be more productive and agile. It allows us to be more accurate when we need to work with bugs."
"The linking is very good in Dynatrace. What happens in other monitoring tools is the linking is not proper. In those solutions, a person has to manually link many of the layers and what is happening in them, while in Dynatrace you get that from the very first visit. For example, if a person is visiting your website, from there it will traverse you to the end. If the application is a Java application, it will traverse you there, to the Method level. So that linking and traversing is better in Dynatrace."
"UEM (RUM): User Experience Management (real user monitoring) puts you in "user's seat" and gives you insight into how they experience the application. Often, this gives a totally different view than just watching the backend calls."
"The most valuable features for me are the dashboard panels because they enable you to monitor multiple applications in one single site."
"The ability to real-time monitor servers and databases without any major drain on application resources is invaluable."
"During the building of a system that is new, there are a lot of bugs. Being in the cloud it is very difficult, sometimes, to diagnose where the issues are. Dynatrace gives us that deep insight into errors."
"It has more functionality, better additional components, and better management of problems. It also has a good AI."
"The stability is rock solid. We put a lot of stress on it."
"I appreciate the capability to process logs from microservices and seamlessly integrate them into Grafana."
"The tool can be used in multi-cluster environments."
"Loki also utilizes the same service discovery mechanism as used by Prometheus. So, whatever labeled metadata you see in Prometheus, you have the exact same metadata in the Loki system. Given this level of intricacy and the attempt to address these challenges, I firmly believe that Loki deserves praise for the work."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to set up alerts, which becomes necessary when we need to receive notifications for specific events."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source tool that is stable and flexible."
"The solution's stability has never been a problem. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the tool's GUI. The solution's GUI is very user-friendly."
"The best feature of Grafana Loki is that it integrates well with our other tool."
"Setting up the thresholds and alerting, it is complicated to understand their use cases."
"We have a load testing team, they completely rely on the reporting for analyzing the data. They should have a template to create a report and they should have something to auto-deliver the report into your email box."
"Some of the APIs and integrations are a bit tougher than others to integrate."
"A role-based view and a Python monitoring tool would make a simple user interface more usable."
"I would like a tool that can give me a one page view of all the problems and issues."
"Log analytics in the classic synthetic and RUM tools would be a great addition."
"DevOps plugin monitoring tools need improvement."
"One thing that would help it tighter integration with DCRUM. It's somewhat difficult to drill down and see everything, but I think that's in the future versions. We just haven't seen that yet."
"The correlation of requests is not simple in Grafana Loki and can be improved."
"We encountered certain limitations when it came to alerting, particularly when dealing with specific data sources."
"Enhancing speed could be a game-changer, and while it might vary depending on the application, it's a factor worth exploring."
"In Grafana Loki, the creation of metrics is not so easy, making it an area that could be made easier."
"My main concern is the recommended production-grade setup. They suggest using tools like Tanka or Jsonnet. They should simplify the process to increase adoption."
"The solution's scalability depends on the team managing the Grafana instance."
"The Docker container partition feature needs improvement as they do not reuse the space and goes into a pending state."
"The product must improve its UI."
Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 340 reviews while Grafana Loki is ranked 14th in Log Management with 12 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Grafana Loki is rated 8.0. 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 Grafana Loki writes "Effective for Logging, recovery from node failures is fast and single UI supports metrics, logs, and even tracing". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Grafana Loki is most compared with Graylog, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and Seq. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana Loki report.
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