We performed a comparison between Dynatrace, Splunk Enterprise Security, and VMware Aria Operations for Applications based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The initial setup was straightforward. The documentation and the university helped on Dynatrace."
"Dynatrace is a single platform. It has all these different tools but they are actually all baked into the OneAgent technology. Within that OneAgent... you have the different tool sets. You have threat analysis, memory dumps, Java analysis, the database statements, and so on. It's all included in this OneAgent. So the management is actually quite easy."
"In my experience, Dynatrace is scalable."
"It is a 100 percent stable solution...Dynatrace is a highly scalable product since it is a SaaS-based application."
"The visibility that it provides through the application's behavior allows us to find trends based on our customized metrics."
"The benefit for our company is that we have one direction and one main solution."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"Provides bespoke dashboards and reports which help our business to grow."
"Correlating data across different systems via one interface will allow you to know your environment or identify incident data in ways you never imagined."
"Integration with the cloud is pretty important and good for us. We found the integration with a lot of tools, not all tools yet, valuable. It does make the transfer of data, log files, and other things easier for us."
"Ease of correlation, creating correlation searches are easy and you can combine multiple sources with little effort"
"The alerts are very effective."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"Without Splunk Enterprise Security, it would be difficult for us to manage and prioritize alerts. There's a potential to lose track of important notifications, and it's essential to our security that we do not miss anything. Splunk has improved our investigations because the reporting and dashboarding make things so much easier. We can provide weekly or monthly reports. I also like Splunk's ability to integrate."
"Splunk would be my choice for the presentation layer because it comes with inbuilt reports and a dashboard that you can customize."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it is straightforward to use and the documentation is good for finding out how to get the data you are looking for."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"No issues with stability."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"I do not like the performance of the UI. It is really slow."
"I would like to have the ability to share live data with selected third parties so that they can see how their product is performing for our company."
"Custom reporting capabilities should be extended, because it now has basic charting capabilities."
"The Web UI can be slow and hard to understand."
"They need better infrastructure monitoring. New Relic is beating them for infrastructure monitoring."
"In AppMon, the performance could be improved. That is the one thing I am most interested in."
"Ease of use could be improved because it can be hard to determine how you made it to the screen you are on and how to get back to it later."
"I find it is very difficult to train someone in using this application. As amazing as it can be, the learning curve is extensive."
"It can be tough to get a hold of somebody in technical support depending on the complexity of the issue."
"Some of the search functions can be better. There has been a lot of talk at the conference about the update of SPL before each iteration. That will be a lot of help."
"The cluster environment should be improved. We have a cluster. In the Splunk cluster environment, in the case of heavy searches and heavy load, the Splunk cluster goes down, and we have to put it in the maintenance mode to get it back. We are not able to find the actual culprit for this issue. I know that cluster has RF and SF, but it has been down so many times. There should be something in Splunk to help users to find the reason and the solution for such issues."
"It needs more formatting control without having to be an admin."
"This is not really a monitoring solution."
"It is important to make sure that everything is built off of the threat models and all the underlying items within Splunk."
"Its pricing model and integration with third-party services can be improved. We had faced an issue with integration. The alerting feature is currently not available with Splunk, but it is definitely available with Datadog and PagerDuty. They should include this feature. A few dashboards in Splunk look quite old and are not that modern. They aren't bad, but improving these dashboards will definitely make Splunk more attractive and usable. I read in a few blog posts that there were a few security incidents related to Splunk agents. So, it can be made more secure."
"Configuring a few apps is complex, not straightforward."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
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