Dynatrace vs Stackify comparison

Dynatrace and Stackify are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Dynatrace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8, while Stackify is ranked #60. Dynatrace holds a 5.3% mindshare in APM, compared to Stackify’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Dynatrace users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 71% of Stackify users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Dynatrace and Stackify both compete in the APM solutions category. Dynatrace seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced capabilities and comprehensive monitoring, despite its higher cost.

What features are offered by Dynatrace in comparison to Stackify?

Dynatrace offers AI-driven insights, detailed transaction traces, and broad cloud monitoring. Stackify provides simplicity, robust error tracking, and logging features. Dynatrace is preferred for advanced, comprehensive features, while Stackify is known for its straightforward, user-friendly approach.

What areas of improvement can be found in Dynatrace in comparison to Stackify?

Dynatrace users suggest enhancing the out-of-the-box dashboards, reducing complexity in initial setup, and streamlining the user interface. Stackify users call for more advanced configuration options, improved documentation, and better support for larger environments.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Dynatrace in comparison to Stackify?

Dynatrace deployment is praised for detailed monitoring capabilities but criticized for its learning curve. Customer service is noted for responsiveness. Stackify's deployment is recognized for its quick setup. Customer service receives mixed reviews, with some desiring more proactive support.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Dynatrace in comparison to Stackify?

Dynatrace is considered expensive with users feeling its extensive features justify the cost, showing a strong ROI. Stackify is seen as more cost-effective, highlighting its affordable pricing and reasonable ROI. Dynatrace’s high cost is offset by its feature set, while Stackify offers lower costs with fewer advanced features.

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Categories and Ranking

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Ranking in Log Management

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

360

Ranking in other categories

Mobile APM (3rd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd), AI Observability (3rd)

Stackify

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

60th

Ranking in Log Management

57th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (65th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Dynatrace is 5.3%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Stackify is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dynatrace	5.3%
Stackify	0.7%
Other	94.0%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Manish Indupuri

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.

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Idoko Emmanuel

Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has good filtering and rating features and helps with resource and load management

I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information.

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Pros

"Dynatrace has reduced our total headcount in operations and the mean time to detect and resolve problems, and as a result those challenging offline times are much shorter, if not non-existent, because of this solution."

"It provides us a reference for being able to go back and look at data at a certain point, analyze it, then determine if something was the root cause."

"One of the key things with Dynatrace is that they are very open to influence on product development side. So, we've influenced them fairly heavily on development and capabilities for Citrix and DC RUM. They've given us integration and support components around some odd technologies that we've got, and they have always been very open and accommodating to going after and developing capabilities around the stuff that we are looking for."

"A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."

"It used to take a lot of time to troubleshoot. Now, we can actually see the logs anytime we want. I can just find the problem. It has improved performance from a time perspective."

"This tool has been essential for monitoring our systems, gathering all performance data, and helping to quickly resolve difficult problems affecting our customers ability to process their work through our systems."

"I have reduced our disruption time. With the automatic alerts, we prevent and better catch the root cause of problems."

"I love how Dynatrace can hook on at the code level, then tell me all the details that I need."

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"The deployment is very fast."

"We switched from New Relic and Loggly as it provides us more info at a lower price."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"The filter feature on Stackify is one of the features I found valuable. It's awesome. When I want to get the application logs, the solution gives me many filters. For example, if I want to get logs from my test environment, the option is there for me to select the environment from Stackify, and you can also select the particular application, and you'll see the information you need there. The filter feature alone and the fact that Stackify offers a lot of different filters is what I like the most about the solution because I've used other tools with the filter feature, but the filtering was very difficult, versus Stackify that has good filtering. On Stackify, you can filter the information by the last one hour, or the last four hours, and you can also select the date range and specify the timestamp, then the solution will give you the information based on the date range you specified. Another feature I found valuable on Stackify is its rating feature because it tells you how your application is faring. For example, a rating of A means excellent, while a rating of F means very bad, or that your application is not doing well at all. The ratings are from A to F. I also like that Stackify helps you in terms of load management because the solution gives you information on overutilized resources. These are the most valuable features of the solution."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"It is very simple and very easy to configure."

"My advice to anyone who wants to use Stackify is to go for it because my experience with it is good."

"What stood out to us were the metrics and granular details we received."

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Cons

"I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly."

"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."

"I am unable to use Synthetic to automate user login."

"So far, we have not achieved the benefit of preventing issues."

"The configuration of this solution is quite complex."

"The AppMon 6.5 is problematic in configuring. It is little finicky. When we configured the JVM, it did not work."

"It needs education and training to ensure you get the full value of your purchase. Maybe add in a certification for Dynatrace."

"We sometimes have to run plugins on docker containers."

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"It should be easily scalable and configurable in different instances."

"Better mobile support."

"I'm looking to see more performance tools, but heard that they are going to release some."

"The search feature could be improved."

"I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines."

"I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information."

"It's not easy to set up. It's hard especially for juniors to understand."

"One thing that happens as a new user on Stackify is when you install the agent it pulls everything and if you're not careful, your log allowance will just be exhausted as you are actually pulling too much data."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We license it for two environments, typically all of production and all of one lower environment, usually our staging environment. If there is a downside to Dynatrace, the only thing I can think of would be the cost. If it were cheaper, I'd have it in all my environments. I don't think they're charging more than it's worth, by any means. It's just that good software costs money."

"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."

"Do a PoC and see if you like it."

"The solution is not cheap."

"The product is pricey, but it is feature-rich, which is why we probably haven't looked away from it."

"The pricing is a little high, but still cheaper than competitors because Dynatrace at least has pay-as-you-go. Others do not. However, the pricing is confusing. I wish it was more simplified when trying to price out moving to a yearly contract."

"The product is definitely worth taking a look at. Be aware that it is probably more pricey than other options on the market, but there are a lot of capabilities. Dynatrace has an eye toward the future and the computing and monitoring needs that we are gonna need for the cloud. "

"The solution has saved us money through the consolidation of tools. With a hybrid landscape, we had multiple tools. When we consolidated, we removed four or five other monitoring tools with one. For the last ROI calculation that I did, Dynatrace was saving us up to $500,000 per year."

More Dynatrace pricing and cost advice

"The price is variable. It depends on how much data we have received in that particular month. Usually, it goes up to $2,000, or, at times, $3,000 USD per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Construction Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

14%

Media Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	50
Large Enterprise	300

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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Overview

Dynatrace offers AI-driven root cause analysis, full-stack observability, and more. Its seamless integration and automated alerts enhance operational efficiency for application performance monitoring across diverse environments.

Dynatrace provides users with comprehensive tools for proactive monitoring, leveraging AI-powered insights to detect bottlenecks and monitor user behavior. It enhances system dependency visualization via Smartscape and offers deep transaction insights through PurePath. Session Replay captures real user experiences, while custom dashboards emphasize essential metrics. Integration capabilities and seamless deployment are key, though users face challenges with navigation, integration, and licensing. Enhancing third-party training tools and optimizing real-time AI diagnostics is desired, with demands for better database monitoring reports and simpler UI.

What are Dynatrace's key features?

AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis: Identifies issues with precision.
Full-Stack Observability: Monitors across all platforms.
Smartscape: Visualizes system dependencies.
PurePath: Provides transaction flow insights.
Session Replay: Captures user interactions.
Custom Dashboards: Focuses on essential metrics.
Automated Alerts: Minimizes downtime.

What benefits should users consider?

Operational Efficiency: Enhances performance management.
Seamless Deployment: Reduces manual intervention.
Integration Capabilities: Ensures smooth system coexistence.
User Experience Insights: Tracks behavior and reliability.

Dynatrace is implemented in industries like finance for monitoring infrastructure and user experience. In manufacturing, it helps ensure system reliability. Its AI-driven approach is crucial for cloud deployments, supporting performance optimization and proactive monitoring.

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Stackify enhances application performance monitoring with features like detailed logging and effective filtering options, integrating capabilities to eliminate the need for multiple tools, and providing rapid deployment and stable performance.

Stackify offers a comprehensive solution for business insight through custom dashboards, error monitoring, load management, and application scoring. Its ability to visualize performance by creating responsive dashboards helps connect business and technical teams. Despite its strengths, users seek improvements such as better mobile support, real-time log appearance, and Docker documentation. Enhanced Linux support and agent memory optimization are also desired, along with better visibility into container and application performance metrics. Integrating more plugins and options would make Stackify a more robust monitoring tool.

What are the key features of Stackify?

Detailed Log and Error Data: Provides in-depth traces and logs for error and data analysis.
Custom Dashboards: Offers business insights and application scoring through tailored dashboards.
Performance Metrics: Monitors application and server performance effectively.
Simple Configuration: Ensures easier setup and deployment without complexities.
Filtering Options: Enables effective management of logs and errors through filters.

What benefits should be expected from using Stackify?

Improved Performance Monitoring: Provides tools to identify root causes and enhance application and server monitoring.
Resource Management: Manages server utilization and handles resource spikes efficiently.
Proactive Alerts: Allows setting up alerts across platforms like AWS and Docker.
Log Aggregation: Compiles logs for testing and analysis to improve system performance.

Organizations across industries use Stackify for extensive application performance monitoring, particularly in testing environments. It is crucial for analyzing database calls, third-party requests, and aggregating logs. Its capabilities in monitoring across AWS and Docker environments make it especially valuable for dynamic and distributed infrastructures.

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