New Features Make Dynatrace Easy to Adopt—No Deep Technical Experience Needed
What do you like best about the product?
Focus on new features that make it easier to adopt and not need alot of technical experience to understand and use
What do you dislike about the product?
More connections with the clients that also use Dynatrace to share successes and challenges to enable collaboration and reduce time to solve issues
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better visibility and observability into our systems to make productive decisions
Exceptional Performance, Easy Integration
What do you like best about the product?
I like how Dynatrace applications enable access to information and the dashboards that support the business. I create dashboards that help my clients have a view of their services' performance and navigate through this information.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have some cases of dashboard migration from the classic version to the new interface that do not bring all the chart settings. Additionally, for some teams where the language is not supported, it has been more challenging after some tag and log rule definitions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dynatrace reduces MTTR, assists in problem analysis, creates dashboards and notebooks, and validates the consistency of the environment.
Best-in-Class End-to-End Observability Toolset
What do you like best about the product?
End to end observably with the best toolset
What do you dislike about the product?
Dealing with the overall product costs and complexity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application availability and performance
Effective Server Monitoring with Room for Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Dynatrace's ability to show saturation, memory saturation, and any issues causing those problems, which helps in monitoring and identifying infrastructure issues. Additionally, it integrates well with ServiceNow for creating problem tickets automatically.
What do you dislike about the product?
Database monitoring could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Dynatrace for server monitoring, addressing infrastructure issues like saturation and memory. It helps diagnose SQL server problems, especially with bad data calls.
All-in-One, Intuitive Portal for Monitoring Application and Platform Health
What do you like best about the product?
Dynatrace provides an all-encompassing, intuitive portal for monitoring application and platform health.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I’m very satisfied with my interactions with Dynatrace.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an AI Engineer, I’ve found that Dynatrace’s contribution to the OTEL spec makes agentic observability much easier to implement and work with.
The #1 Observability Tool for Implementing and Monitoring Applications
What do you like best about the product?
Dynatrace is one of the powerful observability and infrastructure monitoring tools. It expands its capabilities with APM, DEM, and infra monitoring, along with support for databases and multiple cloud platforms. I use it daily to monitor applications and our cloud stack.
It has wide integration support with third-party tools, so we can integrate and monitor almost everything in Dynatrace. They also provide active customer support, helping us when we get stuck and resolving our problems and issues.
We can monitor our application’s golden metrics, such as logs, metrics, traces, and events, along with CPU, memory, disk, and other infrastructure metrics. Overall, it’s one of the best and most user-friendly tools to monitor and secure our applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
There’s nothing to dislike. It’s the number 1 observability tool to use, implement, and monitor applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In Dynatrace, we can set up alerts based on anomalies as well as static thresholds. It can notify you before your application goes down, or when any issue occurs, helping you keep things secure. We can also set service-level boundaries for SLA, SLO, and SLI. In addition, we can create multiple dashboards for the DevOps team to keep an eye on the application’s performance. Overall, it helps you secure your application and address problems before it goes down.
Outstanding APM Solution for Seamless Application Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Dynatrace proved to be an excellent APM tool for applications that had integrated Dynatrace agents into their infrastructure, enabling effective monitoring and tracking.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support for monitoring and tracking traffic for applications hosted in the cloud feels somewhat cumbersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is likely that this product offers support for applications that are hosted in the cloud.
Total Visibility and Precise Tracking of Applications
What do you like best about the product?
I like the complete visibility it offers over applications and infrastructure. The ability to track user actions is excellent for understanding real behavior, identifying issues, and tracking where they are. I constantly use it to support my understanding of the applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I find its usability complex, especially at the beginning when you don't have experience with the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before, it was difficult to have visibility of the actions in our applications. Many errors were not monitored, and many problems were difficult to have evidence for analysis.
Best observability tool in the market.
What do you like best about the product?
The implementation process is simple, and the user interface is highly intuitive, which makes it easy to use even for newcomers to the platform. The product keeps up with market trends by consistently adding new features and offering frequent updates. Customer support is very responsive when it comes to addressing critical issues. Additionally, it integrates well with various third-party platforms, including ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and Microsoft Teams for alert notifications.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, in my work experience, I haven't encountered anything noteworthy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The AI analysis of Davis is very good and almost accurate to find the root cause entities which helps to reduce the MTTR for the incident for most of the cases, also the Dashboards are now user interactive with new features like Notebook and Davis AI forecasting.
Comprehensive monitoring and analysis streamline performance testing and diagnosis
What is our primary use case?
Whenever we do any kind of performance or load testing with Dynatrace, we monitor the environment using service dashboards, deep distribution tracing, analyzing response time hotspots, method hotspots, and understanding the service flow while correlating all this with our load testing results and sharing the feedback with the stakeholders.
We don't use anything related to CI/CD on Dynatrace, but we use it through LoadRunner Enterprise.
What is most valuable?
I find the classic service analysis, service analysis, distribution tracing, and the technology stack that it shows most valuable about Dynatrace, along with the Scape View. I'm unable to pronounce the exact name, but there is a Scaped View, Scaled View, or Scape View where I can see all the environments and how they are configured.
We use AI-powered anomaly detection from Dynatrace, specifically Davis AI log analysis.
The effectiveness of Dynatrace's user experience monitoring is very useful.
I'm using Dynatrace for full-stack monitoring.
What needs improvement?
I think Dynatrace almost looks good, but I believe we should improve how we can integrate with AI. I'm specifically looking at AIOps and how we can monitor AIOps-related things, considering we have LLMs and all that stuff. I don't see those monitoring capabilities for NVIDIA chips, NPUs, GPUs, or anything similar, and maybe it has them, but unfortunately, I lack the knowledge to understand where I can view all those things.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with Dynatrace for nearly five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of Dynatrace approximately between nine and ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The ability to scale and expand in Dynatrace rates around nine to ten altogether.
How are customer service and support?
For Dynatrace tech support, we have a dedicated team here, which is easily reachable, so I rate it around nine to ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I'm not using AppDynamics currently. We used to use it, but now we are using Dynatrace. I moved to Dynatrace completely from AppDynamics.
How was the initial setup?
Dynatrace is basically set up by a Dynatrace admin. OneAgent is installed on one machine, and the entire thing gets monitored through Dynatrace.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
JMeter and BlazeMeter are the other vendors I'm working with. I'm only using JMeter from Apache, not using Tomcat or something similar.
What other advice do I have?
The main benefit of Dynatrace is that it's easy to understand where exactly the issue is. When you see the PurePath, you know which particular machine or hop the application is having an issue with, allowing us to easily drill down to what is happening with the application. If something is happening on the UI, you want to understand what's wrong with the request, and to do that, you need to analyze Dynatrace to easily understand the root cause and where exactly you're seeing the issue.
The Dynatrace license is at the client's location; the client has purchased it, and we just use it.
Without any doubt, Dynatrace is preferable compared to AppDynamics. The main reason why Dynatrace is better is that you can see everything in one go; it includes log analysis, AWS analysis, component level analysis, PurePaths, distribution tracing, real user metrics, mobile metrics, all in one particular tool, one solution.
On a scale of 1-10, I rate Dynatrace a 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
