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Dynatrace vs Gremlin Reliability Management Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Dynatrace boosts ROI by streamlining troubleshooting, enhancing app stability, improving customer satisfaction, and allowing innovation over maintenance.
Sentiment score
8.1
Gremlin Platform users see ROI from 30% fewer issues, reduced testing staff, and less stressful, predictable weekends.
Using Dynatrace directly improved application uptime and reduced customer impacting incidents.
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
ROI is hard to specify; however, incidents like impending ransomware attacks highlight its value, though those are exceptional events.
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology
Save money by identifying problems, thereby reducing monetary losses on their application side.
Technical Manager, Consulting at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are seeing a return on investment from using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform because we are getting less production issues by thirty percent, as I mentioned earlier, making it a great investment.
DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees
We do not need to look at all the day's metrics on Grafana dashboards; we run our chaos experiments in a production environment to see how reliable our product or service is.
DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees
If we needed ten people to do tests once upon a time, now, using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we can do it with a fifty percent reduction in employees.
Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Dynatrace customer service is generally responsive and knowledgeable, but experiences vary in efficiency and problem-solving speed.
Sentiment score
8.5
Gremlin offers reliable customer service with effective Zoom support, good documentation, and high user ratings for prompt assistance.
They have a good reputation, and the support is commendable.
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology
The technical support from Dynatrace is excellent.
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Whenever we faced any issues, we could get timely resolution from their support.
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
When I have questions or run into issues with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, their support team is helpful and responsive.
DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees
The customer support for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is good overall.
DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Dynatrace efficiently manages scalability in diverse environments, enabling smooth growth and deployment with minimal constraints despite some resource challenges.
Sentiment score
7.9
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform excels in scalability and adaptability, seamlessly supporting chaos experiments across diverse infrastructures like AWS.
If it's an enterprise, increasing the number of instances doesn’t pose problems.
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology
It is a powerful tool and helped us to reduce customer downtime and increase work efficiency.
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of Dynatrace is very significant, especially considering the current improvements in their features.
Technical Manager, Consulting at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform scales smoothly for running more chaos experiments, adding more services, or supporting a larger team.
DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees
More than scalability, I thought about availability because it is a really important thing of the architecture tools.
Dev Ops To Development (IT)
The scalability of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform depends on the scalability of the underlying infrastructure that we are hosting it on.
Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Dynatrace is praised for stability and reliability, with recent improvements resolving past issues and offering smooth performance.
Sentiment score
9.2
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is praised for its high stability, consistent performance, and dependable availability without downtime.
Generally, all are stable at ninety-nine point nine nine percent, but if the underlying infrastructure is not deployed correctly, stability may be problematic.
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology
There have been no stability issues with Dynatrace.
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dynatrace is a SaaS product with frequent agent management updates.
Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
I have not seen any downtime or issues with its behavior or performance.
Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Dynatrace requires improved usability, integration, pricing clarity, and enhanced monitoring features to address user feedback on complexity and support.
Enhancing Gremlin with AWS, GCP, machine learning integration and resources can improve usability, despite high cost and complexity.
The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology
Dynatrace could enhance cost and licensing structures, as the current pricing can be expensive for large-scale deployments.
BizOps Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
I'm specifically looking at AIOps and how we can monitor AIOps-related things, considering we have LLMs and all that stuff.
Performance Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I think it would be useful to have some integration with Splunk or other log collectors, or maybe in the future, the ability to link Dynatrace or any other observability platform.
Dev Ops To Development (IT)
If we can integrate it with natural language, could we talk to Gremlin Reliability Management Platform and have it configure some of the basic settings so that non-technical persons can also work on Gremlin Reliability Management Platform-like tools?
DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees
The user interface is great, the integration is smooth, and Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has a fantastic support team that helps us a lot in many cases.
DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

Dynatrace offers high value with advanced features and scalability, justifying its high price for enterprises with substantial IT infrastructure.
Dynatrace is known to be costly, which delayed its integration into our system.
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
If setting up in a large scale environment, it is overwhelming because it is expensive.
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The cost can be controlled from our side, and it is very transparent with Dynatrace regarding DPS and licensing.
Technical Manager, Consulting at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is not so cheap, but it has very powerful features.
Dev Ops To Development (IT)
My role does not incur costs for us since we have an NFR for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform that we can use in our case.
DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees
 

Valuable Features

Dynatrace offers comprehensive monitoring with AI-driven insights, automatic alerts, and easy cloud integration for optimal operational efficiency.
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform enhances system performance with prebuilt tests, automated scheduling, and a user-friendly dashboard for improved uptime.
The integration with Power BI for generating detailed reports is a standout feature.
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dynatrace's AI-driven Davis engine absolutely helps identify performance issues by showing root cause analysis for us up to 200%; whatever is integrated, if it is visible, it can stitch and show.
Technical Associate at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dynatrace links compute with services and services with code and other components.
Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
There are really two pathways along: fewer incidents because with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we can make every part of the infrastructure more solid, and less downtime because we can test more architectures and then things like how to put in high availability clusters.
Dev Ops To Development (IT)
The best feature that Gremlin Reliability Management Platform offers for me is the prebuilt reliability test; I think that is the best feature along with the automated scheduling.
DEVOPS specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees
One of my best features of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is the built-in chaos experiments, which gives you the reliability score of your service.
DevOps & Mlops Engineer at a printing company with 1-10 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
359
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)
Gremlin Reliability Managem...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
54th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (53rd), DevSecOps (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 6.0%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is 0.1%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dynatrace6.0%
Gremlin Reliability Management Platform0.1%
Other93.9%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Manish Indupuri - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
VL
Senior Software Engineer at a sports company with 10,001+ employees
Chaos experiments have revealed weak points and now provide controlled cost-saving tests
The best features of Gremlin Reliability Management Platform are the safe failure injection, which is crucial as we can simulate the failures in a manner that we know these are just dumping tests and not the actual issues. Whether it is the CPU spike or the memory exhaustion, or the network latency, or the server shutdown, server shutdown is one of the most favorite features that I have in Gremlin Reliability Management Platform. The controlled blast radius is another standout feature. The controlled blast radius feature has helped my team in that we actually wanted to target only one specific container, our Docker containers that we deployed. It helped us to conduct tests in a very specific, isolated manner instead of launching a larger test or focusing on hundreds of servers at a time, resulting in very limited impact. Since ours is a very small team, we do not want to impact other servers. This controlled blast radius helped us to only focus on our servers and not impact any other team. Gremlin Reliability Management Platform has positively impacted my organization because before Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we did not even know how to conduct these chaos engineering tests. We heard about it, but we had no idea of how to do something of that nature. If there are ten servers, ten systems in our architecture and if suddenly something goes down, nobody knew what would happen next. We did not even know how to simulate these types of tests. This lack of confidence has been mitigated by using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform. Now we can confidently test and see which system is the most critical. If this goes down, what happens? How much business valuation are we going to impact? How much loss are we going to incur? All of this is now clearly visible and transparent. Since using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform, we were able to reduce the incidents by six percent after conducting our limited experiments. We were also able to increase the uptime from ninety-eight to ninety-nine, which represents a one percent increase in uptime.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
6%
Sports Company
12%
Printing Company
12%
Construction Company
9%
Media Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business78
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise299
No data available
 

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 you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...
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 stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...
Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What needs improvement with Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?
I think that it will be important to have resources to perform self-directed studies on Gremlin Reliability Management Platform as an improvement. There is a small and fast and simple certification...
What is your primary use case for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?
My main use case for Gremlin Reliability Management Platform is chaos testing. I take my infrastructure and then I sabotage some things to see how they reach the goal. I try network or infrastructu...
What advice do you have for others considering Gremlin Reliability Management Platform?
The main advice I would give to others looking into using Gremlin Reliability Management Platform would be to study it. Do not be shy to fail. Test everything and do lab architectures to test. It i...
 

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Sample Customers

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