
Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS)
Dynatrace: Best-in-Class Monitoring with Broad Coverage and Low Overhead
Davis AI Delivers Clear Root-Cause Insights and Real-Time User Monitoring
Fully Automated Root-Cause Analysis with Lightning-Fast Performance
Also it integreates seamlessly with any custom or saas based apps.
The performance is lightning speed fast with ease of accessbility and UI.
The onboarding is pretty straight forward by installing oneAgent for complete monitoring.
The learning cuve is also complex, it requires significant training and time investment. Also for some topics and troubleshooting errors the documentation is outdated with specific frameworks so I have to use trial and error.
For me the increased productivity and for the team and also real user monitoring allow me to ee exactly where customers encounter friction or crashes, leading to higher satisfaction and conversion rates.
I can correlate technical performance directly with business KPIs, such as tracking how a slow checkout process impacts revenue or conversion rates
Full-stack observability has improved load testing and consistently reduces error rates
What is our primary use case?
The main use case for using Dynatrace is to check the CPU utilization and the performance stats of my load test, stress test, or endurance test.
During one of my tests, when I perform a load test, I parallelly open or configure the server of that application in Dynatrace, creating a new dashboard so that during my load test, I can easily observe what is happening, what the error stats are, what my pass percentage is, what my CPU utilization is, or the garbage collection, and other metrics.
I can even check my alerts and exceptions as well.
What is most valuable?
For me, the best feature Dynatrace offers is full-stack observability, which allows me to check my infrastructure or the containers because most of my applications are cloud-based, and with Dynatrace, I can check the database or the network path, or which are on-premises or cloud, making full-stack observability more suitable for me.
Dynatrace is our APM tool, which provides deep code-level visibility, allowing us to check the methods or exceptions, database calls, or external services, and we can easily trace them out.
Dynatrace has positively impacted my organization because usually when I do a load test, our API SLA is only one second, but it crosses more than three seconds or five seconds, and by using this APM tool, we can figure out what is causing it, what kind of error it is throwing, and how we can optimize it, making it very useful for my organization as well as for me while doing load testing.
For the metrics or numbers, our error rate should be less than three percent, and achieving less than three percent, even if it is one percent, is very good, and the reduction of the error rate by using Dynatrace was quite good.
What needs improvement?
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.
If you add some more fields with simple words or simple terms instead of the complex terms used for a resource, that might be helpful.
Dynatrace can be better and more user-friendly, and that is my advice, but overall, it is a good application and APM tool for a performance tester.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Dynatrace for four to five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Dynatrace is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Dynatrace is good, and we can easily figure out what is happening.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is responsive because when I logged some defects to the developer teams, they worked with Dynatrace team, and I think we have received much support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Dynatrace, I used AppDynamics and Splunk.
What was our ROI?
By using the APM tool for resource management and time management, we have saved a lot of time, so I would say this is a good investment that the organization has made.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have not switched from AppDynamics as well as Splunk because I am using Dynatrace as well as those other two APM tools, depending on my project level, what the project is configured with, and which is better.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others to use Dynatrace because it is very good in terms of scalability and reliability, and the stats it shows, including the perfection and the graph, are very good, so I would suggest they use Dynatrace. I gave this review a rating of nine.