We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and VMware Aria Operations for Logs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is easy."
"Dynatrace helps to build business and non-business dashboards and the appropriate alarming on mail groups."
"It is a platform that is very well-suited for marketers, but also for technology people. That is the key: the dashboard."
"I think Dynatrace has good integration. I saw an integration with xMatters where, when there's a problem, it can kick out a message to the whomever it is, with xMatters."
"The most valuable component of it is taking that guessing out of troubleshooting problems. We no longer have to rely on an architect, or an application person, or someone's memory of how the transaction moves throughout the infrastructure and the different dependencies that it has on it. We can see it right there and we find out more that we ever imagined."
"The most valuable features are end user visibility, Smartscape, and the entire visibility of our data center, including SQL queries."
"I like the full-stack agents, the Oneagents, and the futures dynamic."
"Working with the user interface is a pleasure for any customer since it is fast, responsive, and very well designed."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"One of the most valuable features of vRealize Log Insight is that it gives you a clear forecast about your existing machines, for example, how long your machines could be supported and how long the remaining capacity is to host your machines. This is one of the best options available within vRealize Log Insight. Another valuable feature of the solution is automation. My company deploys a lot of automation when required in a very, very short period, and in a very uniform manner, and even if the automation is being deployed for different processes and departments, it's pretty much the same across the environment, so vRealize Log Insight helps reduce a lot of ambiguities and helps my company manage operational efficiencies well."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."
"The root cause analysis feature is very valuable."
"Needs a clearer view for Smartscape."
"The one area that we get value out of now, where we would love to see additional features, is the Session Replay. The ability to see how one individual uses a particular feature is great. But what we'd really like to be able to see is how a large group of people uses a particular feature. I believe Dynatrace has some things on its roadmap to add to Session Replay that would allow us those kinds of insights as well."
"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."
"Under heavyweight, Dynatrace becomes slower when listing PurePaths."
"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."
"There's no download action for the reports, so if they could add something like that, it would add value for us. We cannot save data for more than seven to 10 days, so it would be better to add a feature for downloading. At least we could store the data and then we could compare for ourselves, where we are starting and where we are and where we are heading. I would have those metrics."
"When you're making that transition from AppMon, which is very dashboard-oriented, over to Dynatrace, which is no dashboards, there needs to be something in between so that business buys in a little bit. I would transition my dashboards over so that we don't have to recreate them, because recreating them is very difficult in Dynatrace. It's really hard to say, "Oh, the dashboards that you had on the team that you were using, you're not going to get over here." Or, "You have to re-create them all over again." People are going to ask questions about cost, who is going to do that."
"I do know that for the size of our organization, we're talking thousands of agents and hundreds of applications, it does get to the point where the servers themselves that house Dynatrace are at a point where, in some cases, they are just too big for one machine, since you have to have an entire application ecosystem all funnel into a single system."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"The solution should be more user-friendly. The user interface and dashboard could be simplified."
"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."
"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
"Log retention should have more options for user control."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
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Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 340 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Dynatrace vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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