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Dynatrace vs Monte Carlo comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
350
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (2nd), Log Management (5th), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (1st), AIOps (2nd)
Monte Carlo
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Observability (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Dynatrace and Monte Carlo aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Dynatrace is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 8.9%, down 12.2% compared to last year.
Monte Carlo, on the other hand, focuses on Data Observability, holds 33.5% mindshare, down 36.0% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Dynatrace8.9%
Datadog7.4%
Sentry5.8%
Other77.9%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Data Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Monte Carlo33.5%
Anomalo12.8%
Acceldata12.6%
Other41.1%
Data Observability
 

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.
PR
Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface.
The product's initial setup is in a daily improvement stage, deploying new plugins for upstream and downstream resources. It takes 25 minutes to complete. The process involves integrating with third-party services for Single Sign-On (SSO). It requires only one executive for maintenance as it has easy-to-use navigation and user interface.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This is a stable solution."
"The most valuable things that we have seen are the user experience and capturing what the users are doing inside the browser."
"The web dashboard is very simple to use."
"We used to rely on multiple operations tools to monitor and obtain bits and pieces. Now, we have it all in a single pane of glass."
"Interrelating the logs and infrastructure issues, application issues, DC RUM, everything in one dashboard, saves us time in troubleshooting."
"The most valuable feature is capture of 100% of the traffic. Also, exposure to downstream services, that might not necessarily be new, to everybody who's using applications. It triggers them and captures them and it gives visibility to some pieces that might be forgotten or even obscured."
"Being able to drill down into the PurePaths to get to a solution is key for us."
"Helps us in understanding what elements on the page contribute to load time and the primary ​areas to focus on for improvement."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
 

Cons

"The dashboard tool needs to be improved. We need more options, because the look and feel is too old-fashioned."
"Enterprise Synthetic of DC RUM can be made more robust."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"In AppMon, the performance could be improved. That is the one thing I am most interested in."
"The GUI has the most room for improvement. Sometimes, it can be a little cumbersome to find things and be able to create your own views, or be able to dig in and understand where things are."
"Need better mapping to true business service rather than purely technical monitoring."
"On the side of the end user experience, I would suggest adding a new service for analyzing the backtrace of users."
"One piece that we think that's missing is, there were thread names that were missing in analytical information in the Dynatrace solution, versus the AppMon solution. The AppMon solution gives you that information, and it is very helpful for connecting dots and bringing all the pieces together."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our annual costs were about the same for both AppDynamics and Dynatrace."
"We have a three-year contract. We have 30 licenses for the full stack and 3 licenses for the DEM unit."
"Decodes on less used/popular protocols are available, but they should be included. Additional investment should not be required."
"There is a license issue where if we increase the memory we have to up the licenses. I was unaware of that going in. I thought it was scalable without all the paperwork behind the scenes. ​​"
"I would like to see them improve on their licensing and the cost. It's been a challenge for us because the way they have it broken out right now, you have to buy it by units. It's hard for us to know where to put those units because our company is broken up into all these different business units, so it's been challenging in that sense. I just would like to see them improve that model a little bit."
"Setup cost is very low considering that it is an almost totally, automatic process."
"While it is quite good in respect to its functionality, there are few area in regards to pricing that they can look at how to possibly change. I have heard it's costly."
"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.​"
"The product has moderate pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Retailer
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business76
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise289
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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...
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