Analysis of user behavior, application errors, performance of hosts, services, processes, and user sessions.
Analista APM at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Provides extensive documentation and fast support
Pros and Cons
- "Understanding how the user was being targeted by the application as well as knowing their behavior using those applications."
- "Needs support for more technologies."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Understanding how the user was being targeted by the application as well as knowing their behavior using those applications.
What is most valuable?
- Easy installation
- Fast support
- Extensive documentation
- Quick distribution of new features
- Active community
- Market leading product
What needs improvement?
- Customization
- Support for more technologies
- Plugins
- More types of tiles (dashboard)
- Replay of user sessions
- User actions heatmap (native)
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For how long have I used the solution?
Three to five years.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.

Web Developer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
We now spend less time figuring out what went wrong and where
Pros and Cons
- "Often, we are busy working on other tasks when something goes wrong with the site. Getting timely alerts is very important to our needs as a business."
- "Configuration could be simpler."
- "Alert triggers could be easier to setup and more granular."
What is our primary use case?
We need to have accurate, reliable real-time alerts when issues arise in our production environments.
How has it helped my organization?
Thanks to Dynatrace, we now spend less time figuring out what went wrong and where. Instead, we can focus more on why it happened and work towards resolving the issue sooner.
What is most valuable?
Real-time alerts are the best feature. Often, we are busy working on other tasks when something goes wrong with the site. Getting timely alerts is very important to our needs as a business.
What needs improvement?
- Configuration could be simpler.
- Alert triggers could be easier to setup and more granular.
- We sometimes receive alerts for things we would rather not get alerts about.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than five years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Web Developer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real-time alerts allow us to address issues as they happen, but ease of use could be improved
Pros and Cons
- "Real-time alerts allow us to address issues as they happen."
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
Monitoring our web server uptime and the performance of our web applications. We also use it to monitor our database performance.
How has it helped my organization?
Real-time alerts allow us to address issues as they happen. Tracing issues down to the specific application and the specific method reduces troubleshooting time.
What is most valuable?
Real-time alerts and being able to trace issues down the call stack. This has helped us to react quickly to issues and reduced our debug time due to knowing where to start looking for the issue.
What needs improvement?
It could be organized better in the dashboard. 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.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Managing Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Finds issues that previously occupied people for months
Pros and Cons
- "Finds issues that previously occupied people for months."
- "The products or company go through a rebrand/renaming about once a year, which creates some confusion with our customers."
What is our primary use case?
Dynatrace not only tells you that your users are having issues with your application, but also where you should look to fix the issues. In modern complex applications, it is no longer enough to just hope for the best. The latest product utilizes AI and massive automation make it really easy to deploy.
How has it helped my organization?
Finds issues that previously occupied people for months. Just pointing the finger at a problematic piece of code is magical. Business and IT come together to understand how apps work, no more unproductive discussions and blame game.
What is most valuable?
- Code-level detail for all transactions
- AI, automation, and ease of deployment
What needs improvement?
The products or company go through a rebrand/renaming about once a year, which creates some confusion with our customers.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than five years.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Dynatrace partner.
Application System Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class
Pros and Cons
- "We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class"
- "You can see every step a transaction goes through, which servers it hits, and what technology it uses."
What is our primary use case?
We monitor our business's essential websites and also our newest mobile application. Monitoring the application with Appmon has proven essential for our testing department.
How has it helped my organization?
We can see which step in a transaction is causing latency, right down to the particular Java class. The granularity is amazing.
What is most valuable?
Monitoring the PurePath is awesome. You can see every step a transaction goes through, which servers it hits, and what technology it uses (windows, Linux, etc.).
What needs improvement?
I do not know about how our contract is structured. From what I have heard in the company, Dynatrace is expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
You get a really well-planned out monitoring suite for the money spent.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Software Quality Analyst Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We were able to decrease the number of production defects ever since we started using it in our test environment
Pros and Cons
- "We leverage on Dynatrace technology to trace and identify issues in the test environment before launching to production."
- "With PurePath, I am able to find the root cause of the error or bug existing in our system."
- "We were able to decrease the number of production defects ever since we started using Dynatrace in our test environment."
- "A tutorial could be embedded in the system as it is hard for a beginner to start using Dynatrace straight away."
What is our primary use case?
We leverage on Dynatrace technology to trace and identify issues in the test environment before launching to production.
How has it helped my organization?
We were able to decrease the number of production defects ever since we started using Dynatrace in our test environment.
What is most valuable?
PurePath is the feature that I personally find important. With PurePath, I am able to find the root cause of the error or bug existing in our system.
What needs improvement?
A tutorial could be embedded in the system as it is hard for a beginner to start using Dynatrace straight away. It has a lot of cool features, however they are too complicated for a new user to start with.
For how long have I used the solution?
Trial/evaluations only.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Director and Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It has helped our customers to rapidly resolve performance issues
Pros and Cons
- "The product installs quickly and immediately. It begins to learn the architecture of the systems which need to be monitored. It then learns what “normal” looks like, so there really is no need for manual configuration."
What is our primary use case?
We use Dynatrace to help deliver the complete end-to-end performance experience presenting results in both an IT and business context.
How has it helped my organization?
Dynatrace has helped our customers to rapidly resolve performance issues, and most importantly, to correlate the results with the real user experience.
What is most valuable?
The product installs quickly and immediately. It begins to learn the architecture of the systems which need to be monitored. It then learns what “normal” looks like, so there really is no need for manual configuration.
What needs improvement?
Product pricing could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than five years.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Product pricing can seem a little over complex, however this is minor and does not detract from the benefits of the solution.
What other advice do I have?
Dynatrace is the market leader for good reason. The company sees the future of APM and starts to deliver the functionality way ahead of many others.
We chose to partner with Dynatrace, not just because it is the market leader, but because they demonstrate the values that we feel are important to our customers, such as:
- A consultative approach
- Customer centric account management
- Ensuring that customers experience the benefits of the solutions.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
Global Alliance Director - DevOps, Vertical Alliance Lead - Banking & Financial Services, INS & HC at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It has helped us deliver better solutions to our end customers, but the company could spend more time creating brand awareness
Pros and Cons
- "It has helped us deliver better solutions to our end customers, and helps them in their digital transformation journey."
- "They could spend more time and effort in creating brand awareness."
What is our primary use case?
- Application monitoring
- End user experience
- Cloud Migration
How has it helped my organization?
It has helped us deliver better solutions to our end customers, and helps them in their digital transformation journey.
What is most valuable?
Monitoring: This helps us in making sure the end user gets an excellent experience with the applications that they use.
What needs improvement?
Nothing in particular. They could spend more time and effort in creating brand awareness.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: My company has an alliance relationship with Dynatrace.

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