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Dynatrace vs Instabug comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Ranking in Mobile APM
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
356
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (6th), Container Monitoring (1st), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (4th)
Instabug
Ranking in Mobile APM
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Mobile APM category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 34.1%, down from 40.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Instabug is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile APM Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Dynatrace34.1%
Instabug1.1%
Other64.8%
Mobile APM
 

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.
reviewer2785143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder . Interior Architect & Interior Designer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Fast in-app surveys have improved how we collect and focus on user feedback for our job platform
The best features Instabug offers are that it is very easy to obtain immediate feedback. The immediate feedback feature for my app is very simple to use, which helps my team and users focus on the target and focus on a different objective. Instabug has impacted my organization positively because it is very simple to use, and I can find in a short time the feedback I need to work on a specific target.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has created total transparency between technology and business on all aspects of systems and performance as well as being a proxy for network performance through user experience monitoring. This followed a major performance degradation of our primary frontline system, which highlighted inadequacy of infrastructure focus tools, e.g., Nagios and Zabbix. It helped detect and remediate several performance issues on systems on both vendor supplied packages as well as in-house developed systems. It also improved InfraOps and development teams understanding of system behaviour and performance characteristics."
"Triggering gives us warning that system is getting slow and we need to nail down the issue soon, so it does not impact our business."
"Its AI can tell us when something is wrong, including the impacts and the root cause."
"It helps DevOps find all its problems easily and analyzes performance problems."
"For stability, our customers have no complaints."
"The most valuable things that we have seen are the user experience and capturing what the users are doing inside the browser."
"Adds value to application owners, DB owners, and provides visibility on how end users utilize browsers and where they are originate from."
"The way it shows a problem on the dashboard is pretty good."
"The product makes it very easy to reproduce issues."
"The best features Instabug offers are that it is very easy to obtain immediate feedback."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
 

Cons

"Some technical architectures are based on an event mechanism operating via a publish/subscribe system. APM technology sometimes reaches its limits to go upstream."
"It's not very scalable, we cannot add another server onto it."
"On the side of the end user experience, I would suggest adding a new service for analyzing the backtrace of users."
"I think scalability is what we're struggling with. I would say it's okay, but there's a little bit of room for improvement."
"The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts."
"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."
"A role-based view and a Python monitoring tool would make a simple user interface more usable."
"As we move into using more AWS native architectures, it should support everything that we want to do. We don't want to adopt another tool."
"The end users were not able to report bugs."
"It would be beneficial if the tool could be more precise in capturing steps, focusing only on the relevant ones. For example, there were some times when it caught some extra screenshots which were not included in the steps. Sometimes, it also happened that it got some extra steps that were not in there to reproduce the bug. We also called that screenshot and the steps there as well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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.​"
"Decodes on less used/popular protocols are available, but they should be included. Additional investment should not be required."
"Financially Dynatrace was a lot more expensive than AppDynamics."
"I have not been able to observe more than 1% overhead, despite Dynatrace saying that it can be slightly higher in some situations."
"The licensing model is confusing in solutioning clients for the number of hosts needed to deploy."
"We asked for a three-year license, and the price was quite good."
"Pricing is still too expensive."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business78
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise297
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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 Instabug?
Maybe it can be more simple to separate customers by age.
What is your primary use case for Instabug?
My main use case for Instabug is to conduct a survey. I use Instabug for a survey and to receive feedback about our app, as we have a new app. My team uses Instabug because we have an app in which ...
What advice do you have for others considering Instabug?
Instabug has helped me get a faster response, but I don't have any experience with different sites, so I cannot make a comparison. My advice to others looking into using Instabug is to use it simpl...
 

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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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