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Dynatrace vs Instabug comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 13, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
346
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (5th), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd)
Instabug
Ranking in Mobile APM
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Mobile APM category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 38.8%, down from 43.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Instabug is 0.6%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile APM
 

Featured Reviews

Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides a comprehensive view by integrating with other monitoring systems
There may be an issue since there are many tools like Splunk involved in network monitoring. From an IP perspective, Dynatrace is performing well. If they want to develop in network monitoring, they can, as it's part of their product line. It's not rocketry, so they can accomplish it. If I, as an SI, look at it from an enterprise perspective, considering the cost from the client, I prefer not to go with multiple systems, as they don't provide a complete 360-degree view. They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system. 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.
Aisha Mazher - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable solution that provides visibility into user journeys and enables the filing of RCA reports
The initial setup was really easy. There were some calls that we had to integrate into our code. Instabug was easy to integrate with our app. If we needed special logs for some calls to check the response rate of some end-to-end procedures, we could also integrate them. There were some APIs we could use for end-to-end integration. The product was deployed on Bitbucket. The beta app was deployed in our local environment. The deployment process was not time-consuming. The production phase took a day. It was just a one-time effort. For the beta app, we had to do it multiple times, but it was easy to deploy.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ability for Dynatrace to identify the root cause of problems in a timely manner through its powerful AI capability and dependency mapping is a real value add for the service that we offer."
"We're able to pinpoint web and mobile interface issues before they trigger a negative customer experience."
"Since things are getting more complicated, it is nice to have artificial intelligence to correlate issues and events to come up with root cause."
"The Dynatrace solution has an important role in optimizing application code and SQL queries for customer solutions."
"It severely reduces the time spent doing performance test cycles."
"We're able to tell them which calls, which methods, which interface were the problem."
"The most valuable feature is the 360-degree view for monitoring, infrastructure, and application worlds."
"Dynatrace AppMon has allowed a deep dive review of performance problems in near real-time for our primary external website and related web apps and web services."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"The product makes it very easy to reproduce issues."
 

Cons

"In the new Dynatrace solution, support for legacy applications is still not there. ​"
"We called support mostly about implementation issues. Docker was one which was early on and the support structure for Dynatrace. Typically, they were trying to help us figure out third-party applications and where the monitoring agent should be located."
"What needs improvement in Dynatrace is its dashboard. Creating dashboards in Dynatrace is good, but compared to Grafana, which is integrated with Broadcom DX APM, the resulting dashboard in Dynatrace isn't as clear. The Dynatrace dashboard needs to be more graphic."
"Log analytics in the classic synthetic and RUM tools would be a great addition."
"Cloud monitoring and reporting need improvement, as well as how to manipulate data and export it to share with business executives."
"Make it easier to define applications. E.g., provide an API for applications defined by REST services."
"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."
"For the manage services, they work on CloudWatch logs and are given CloudWatch logs only. I would like more collaboration with AWS and insight into CloudWatch services. This would be valuable, especially when detecting the fault of the root cause analysis. It would make the process go faster."
"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

"The price of the solution is expensive."
"​Make sure your leadership buy-in is in place. Ensure leadership understands that an APM solution is a fairly expensive, so they know what they are getting into."
"Dynatrace is an expensive solution."
"Financially Dynatrace was a lot more expensive than AppDynamics."
"Dynatrace is very good and it's provided a lot of information, it plays a positive role in making your application up to date in the market. If you want to monitor some applications only, it would be cheaper if you did cloud monitoring, but the price benefit depends on the use case."
"The pricing and licensing are very expensive."
"It's expensive."
"Just go with Dynatrace. Just start with Dynatrace. Do not go into AppMon. Start with Dynatrace, because AppMon is going to give you so much extra stuff that 99% of your user base will not need it, including yourself."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
36%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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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 do you like most about Instabug?
The product makes it very easy to reproduce issues.
What needs improvement with Instabug?
The end users were not able to report bugs. We had to depend only upon the crash reports. For example, if an application was not crashing, but a specific functionality was not working, the QA perso...
What is your primary use case for Instabug?
I used the solution to perform RCA for my app. I used to review the crash reports every week and check which API or call was failing repeatedly. I created a debugging configuration in Jira and repo...
 

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Sample Customers

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