Dynatrace Reviews

We have about 150 servers to be monitored and manual monitoring is a pain. We use Dynatrace to help our team in monitoring server health, CPU utilization, application errors.

Previously, the team had to do manual monitoring but now we have Dynatrace to alert the support team for immediate assistance.

Alerting mechanism and drill down to the error details using PurePaths.

I like the auto email alerting feature the most, as it is set up based on the application error or condition.

Current issue is adding a new resource or removing an old resource. It would be helpful if we could include group distribution email IDs for alerting.

Dynatrace allows for my developers and administrators to dissect problems and performance impacts in our intranet/extranet environment and determine the root cause.

With the help of Dynatrace, we have improved performance by 50% and determined conflicts in the application to eliminate errors.

The user monitoring is probably the best part of the application. With it, we can go back to when a specific user had an issue and trace the entire transaction from the client to the database.

There are a couple gaps in the network reporting that we would like to see cleared up a bit. Other than that, it works like a charm.

Application needs to send alerts to the production team whenever there is an issue in any of the applications which are running in production.

Application monitoring is automated. Previously it was manual monitoring and having to check production servers, but using this solution we can configure the agents and look for alerts. It is very efficient and saves lot of manual effort.

By using Dynatrace, we can set up the agents to provide alerts at the JVM level.

Saves time, effort. It shows minute level errors. Node level configurations, application level configurations, JVM alerts are very flexible; you can drill down for specific errors.

• Configuring nodes and agents should be more like plug and play. 
• Transaction statistics should be more flexible to export and share with tje business side.

• End-to-end application monitoring and user experience management. 
• We use the error log management where we define the rules that constitute as an system error and/or failure. 
• The ability to monitor users' browser data.

Gives systems back-end visibility, allows for proactive monitoring, and improves the user's experience.

The level of dashboard granularity through the calendar features. This allows for a granular view of the data. 

Data streaming and dashboard loading can be improved to reduce dashboard latency. For example, it takes a significant amount of time to display aggregated data from the back-end to the dashboard. 

We use Dynatrace for its Synthetic Web Monitoring. This allows us to automatically react to any issues regarding site reliability.

The best example has been cost. We used Pingdom previously and Dynatrace proved to be a similar solution at a lower cost.

The Recorder for setting up a synthetic monitor is a really great tool for non-technical staff to be able to set up a monitor.

Adding people to alerts has not been very intuitive. That is really my only negative feedback.

We have a lot of very complex and very sensitive applications to monitor. Dynatrace's alert mechanism is helpful.

The alert mechanism has reduced hours of manual work.

Metrics for CPU, memory, network, and disk. Since it provides extensive end-user, application, and infrastructure platform and technology support that includes mobile, web browser, Java, .NET, PHP, servers, networks, and the mainframe

It's too early to comment on the features to be added/tuned.

Minimize application downtime.

We are able to solve many problems using Dynatrace. The main thing we have achieved using this software is minimizing the downtime of our applications by reacting to the alerts that it triggers. 

The server monitoring is very accurate enabling us to identify the issues proactively and fix them.

• The best part of Dynatrace is that the tool is very lightweight and very easy to install. 
• It is very simple and interesting to install agents on the multiple servers. 
• I like the UI and dashboards that we can build on Dynatrace. 
• The PurePaths section is very very informative. It points exactly to the exception and we can pinpoint using parameters.
• We are able to generate many reports which we were not able to produce before. This helps in visualizing the data better and in presenting the data in more advanced ways.

The one thing I do not like about Dynatrace is that their web dashboards are very very slow. They seriously have to improve their web  dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts.

Our primary use case is to monitor end-to-end availability of the application, performance of the transaction test-wise and step-wise, and deep dive PurePath analysis of real user visits. 

Dynatrace is an excellent APM solution. I have been working on products, like synthetic monitoring, user experience management, Keynote, mobile testing, etc. 

I found the way Dynatrace analysis engine analyses the data feed and presents it to the user from dashboarding and charting to out-of-the-box reports is very useful. 

Enterprise application monitoring for synthetic, as is, only captures http/https transactions.