Using this tool, it pinpointed the problem instead of us scratching our heads trying to identify where it could go wrong, and we could directly proceed with the solution.

While we have similar compute monitoring on Azure side such as Azure Monitoring and Azure App Services with compute utilization, Dynatrace links compute with services and services with code and other components. This makes problem management, alert management, and identifying what needs to be fixed for the development team much easier.

Dynatrace offers include configuring alerts and dashboards, such as problem notifications and custom dashboards for EC2 health, ECS service performance, error rates, and latency, along with anomaly detection and security and IAM, allowing outbound traffic to Dynatrace and using IAM roles for EC2 with no sensitive data stored locally.

Dynatrace has drastically improved our MTTR and provides one monitoring tool across the entire landscape. We have achieved a massive reduction in operational costs and tool sprawl.

Dynatrace itself is a very good platform where the UI interface is very simple and usable, but I would say if it were made even more simple, similar to our Splunk dashboard, that could help users or newer users understand it more easily, especially since sometimes I have seen when using Dynatrace, we are not able to add the time frame properly.