Dynatrace vs. F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynatrace
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Dynatrace is an APM scaled for enterprises with cloud, on-premise, and hybrid application and SaaS monitoring. Dynatrace uses AI-supported algorithms to provide continual APM self-learning and predictive alerts for proactive issue resolution.
$0
per synthetic request
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Securely connects distributed apps and services across public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code, App Connect provisions resources and maintain uniform policies across multiple sites.N/A
Pricing
DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Editions & Modules
Synthetic Monitoring
$0.001
per synthetic request
Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
$0.002
per hour for any size pod
Real User Monitoring
$0.00225
per session
Application Security
$0.018
per hour for 8 GIB host
Infrastructure Monitoring
$0.04
per hour for any size host
Full-Stack Monitoring
$0.08
per hour for 8 GIB host
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Considered Both Products
Dynatrace
Chose Dynatrace
Single Agent deployment
AI analysis that provides insight discovery and pure path
Able to analyst performance data quickly and next hop.
Chose Dynatrace
New relic was mostly like readonly dashboard and restricted how we slice and dice the data presented to us. Ability to drill down was seriously limited.
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace UI seems better compared to splunk also DT gives better flexibility in terms of plans and costs. For logging monitoring we are using splunk and splunk is better for that purpose. But hosts and server monitoring and alerting perspective Dynatrace is better. Dynatrace …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace gives the overall picture of the application usage and performance by default with minimal configurations whereas in Datadog a lot of manual intervention is required to analyze the application performance and troubleshooting the issues. Dynatrace is user-friendly when …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace has three key points: ease of deployment, ease of access and a very low learning curve. Also the info provided by the DT agents are easy to understand and relate to root cause. Also the user interface is very simple and can be configured/shared to provide the data to …
Chose Dynatrace
We selected Dynatrace because it is much more modern and depends on AI, on auto-discovery, and other features, making it really a next-gen monitoring solution. It is not easy to on-board to Dynatrace, as it has an extremely steep learning curve. It is also possible that other …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace has better PHP microservice monitoring than AppDynamics. There is also no sampling.
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is far superior to the other products. The single pane of glass and ease of use are why we chose Dynatrace.
Chose Dynatrace
Some of these tools we use alongside Dynatrace, and others we chose Dynatrace over. Since Ruby is not a Dynatrace supported language, we use New Relic to monitor those applications. We are an AWS shop so naturally, we use CloudWatch metrics for things like auto-scaling where it …
Chose Dynatrace
I have used a plethora of Application Performance Management (APM) tools, all have their niche. Dynatrace provides the best-in-class experience for support, operations, and platform engineering teams. In addition, access for my Enterprise Development teams has been critical. …
Chose Dynatrace
BMC was only a basic APM with not much detail or drilling into the issue. It only showed there was a problem with the host. Before Dynatrace, to troubleshoot an issue we had to log into different consoles for different applications and review logs. Now with a quick visual and a …
Chose Dynatrace
The Dynatrace product was much more feature-rich than New Relic. We went through multiple proofs of concepts with each vendor using our actual system. We found that both did some things the same but in other areas, the Dynatrace product was much better. There was a black box …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is much more expensive than Pingdom, but it does a better job of doing synthetic monitors and the credential store is much better. When it comes to availability it does a better job of creating of synthetic monitors and it can create a credential store which is a big …
Chose Dynatrace
AppDynamics and New Relic did not provide the ease of usability and the amount of automation that Dynatrace is able to provide us.
Chose Dynatrace
I would consider Network Application Monitoring as looking at and under the foundation, while Dynatrace provides insights to the house and structure.
Chose Dynatrace
We didn't like AppDynamics as much we like Dynatrace.
Chose Dynatrace
I have not evaluated any other monitoring products. Our company has evaluated other products that have not stacked up against Dynatrace. Dynatrace has deeper monitoring than others and provides excellent alerting capabilities. Dynatrace was selected for those features as well …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace provides the best insights into our environment from end to end. It provides user sessions throughout the application so, we can see exactly what users are doing and potentially not only fix problems but provide improvements before any issues arise. There is no …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is superior to all other products on the market.
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is much easier and more thorough than DX APM.
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
The easy of deploy
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 …
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
It's pretty clear that these two are fine within a single ecosystem but fall short when the architecture spans more than one cloud vendor.
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User Ratings
DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
7.9
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Availability
8.2
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Performance
7.3
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7.0
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Support Rating
8.2
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-
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In-Person Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
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Online Training
8.2
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-
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Implementation Rating
7.9
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Configurability
7.3
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Ease of integration
7.3
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Product Scalability
7.3
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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8.2
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User Testimonials
DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
Dynatrace is well suited to a number of tasks. It is important to determine who the end users are and gather good information to tailor their experience accordingly. For instance, business/marketing should not have access to some of the more technical data, and business metrics can be a distraction for IT operations personnel.
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I thought F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect worked great to bridge the gap between our gcp environment and on prem. We were lacking in cloud funtionality for native load balancers but XC really connected the dots. We would most likely need a hybrid environment until the irules functionality improves for a few of our apps but most could be migrated over the XC.
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Pros
  • We loved Dynatrace's ability to show the data flow - from the front end points through the back end points straight to the database and various API's. It was advanced in its data visualization. This is useful for debugging - showing when/where the errors are. It can even enable non-technical individuals in the corporation to help debug
  • Dynatrace has some great highly customizable integration options as well as monitoring. You can configure your layout & integration options to create custom monitoring alerts for your applications performance. Further you can increase the extensibility of using a REST API on your architecture.
  • Some advanced dev-ops systems are utilizing Kubernetes/docker aswell as Node.JS - Dynatrace was able to log and help understand all of our dev-ops needs. It gave us native alerts based off of deviations from the baseline that we set during initial configuration. These metrics are priceless.
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  • Ease of use - standing up a new site took very little time, less then an hour.
  • Connecting the dots - the ease at standing up a load balancer and advertising it on CEs was simple and straight forward. Once you get familiar with the field layout it's very comparable to BIG-IP
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Cons
  • Dynatrace does not monitor easily on AIX OS.
  • Dynatrace does not monitor easily on a C-based application.
  • The way DPGR is addressed by Dynatrace is not very complete, and not clear. One thing is to mask the IP and request attributes but is not enough, the replay session feature is great but raises serious questions about user tracking.
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  • More of a unified experience as Gartner released their latest sort of sassy trends. A lot of consumers are looking at a more unified experience and that's the sort of compilation of both management and data planes into a single things like single UI, easier management experience for the corporations.
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Likelihood to Renew
We have got tremendous support and response from the dynatrace support team as well as the larger community. We still have issues like the lack of role based administration, but we are told that it may be coming in a future release. The team is very supportive and has assisted us in several tough situations.
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At this point it has become too focal to our operations. An entire department could collapse if we dropped it now or in the near future. My experiences as mentioned in the previous questions tell of its gravity
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Usability
Dynatrace is great to use once you understand how to use it correctly and get used to the layout of it. While I do not actively use it every day, whenever I do use it, I do have to get refamiliarized with it. However, once you have your dashboards setup correctly with the data that you want to see when you first login to Dynatrace, it's amazing.
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Reliability and Availability
Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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Performance
We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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From what we have been able to test load/responsiveness is quick and when we've tested out reporting and troubleshooting modules they have pulled the correct information in quick timeframes. We haven't been able to test out any software integration with Splunk of other software on our system since we are still in early POC stages but from what we've been told we should be able to implement that in our environment
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Support Rating
I wish I could have given the ten points but based on my experience in past I am reducing by two points as the penalty. But I am sure that it will have improved in the past few months. They need some improvement on ticket handling. Overall I appreciate some of the support folks who responded quickly and also were ready to jump on the Webex and get the problem understood to fix it.
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In-Person Training
We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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Online Training
The training was done on our time and with our system.
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Implementation Rating
Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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Alternatives Considered
Like I mentioned earlier, Dynatrace is a great tool but comes with a heavy price tag. On the other hand, Foglight offers a slightly lower level of expertise in application monitoring but fulfils almost all the requirements you would commonly have. The only major feature lacking in Foglight is the predictive monitoring feature. If you are an SME struggling with budgets, then predictive monitoring is something you can certainly live without.
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-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a better user experience
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Scalability
Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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Return on Investment
  • Thanks to Dynatrace we have been able to effectively challenge and collaborate with service providers and outsourced IT teams.
  • Thanks to Dynatrace we have reduced MTTR on troubleshooting by a magnitude of four.
  • The performance analyses our team has done with Dynatrace earned us trust among management, business teams, and IT teams.
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  • Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
  • Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
  • Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup
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