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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dynatrace

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ADynatrace 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

    Splunk AppDynamics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.N/A
    Pricing
    DynatraceSplunk AppDynamics
    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
    DynatraceSplunk AppDynamics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    DynatraceSplunk AppDynamics
    Considered Both Products
    Dynatrace LLC
    Chose Dynatrace
    Single Agent deployment
    AI analysis that provides insight discovery and pure path
    Able to analyst performance data quickly and next hop.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace has better PHP microservice monitoring than AppDynamics. There is also no sampling.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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. …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    I preferred Dynatrace - hands down.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Compared to other vendors, the Dynatrace sales team was very responsive and was able to set up demos and POC quickly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    I felt Dynatrace's deployment model was much simpler for our environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace beats the others with Davis and the AI used to auto-detect problems, easy install, all out-of-the-box metrics and functionalities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    The two are completely different.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Datadog is a good system but does lack a lot of features provided by Dynatrace, and more importantly, it does not have the support Dynatrace provides. Many other systems, Zabbix, Nagio, AppDynamics also exist, but so far, Dynatrace really shines above them all.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace has replaced our old monitoring product (CA Wily) and completely transformed the Infrastructure and Container monitoring.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace was the easiest to use. AppDynamics was a close second. The Dynatrace AI agent was extremely impressive. Others are working on it but don't seem to be there yet. The Dynatrace roadmap and vision (coupled with execution to this point) matched where we were going the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace tops AppDynamics in ease of implementation and ease of use, detail of insights, and possibilities of out-of-the-box insights.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace is easy to on-board. Easy and quick to find any performance issues. Back-tracking of dependency calls is easy. I think these are the features missing from other APM tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Our technical team showed me the completeness of Dynatrace against the competitors. Also, the breadth of services Dynatrace offered was a selling point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace ended up being our choice over AppDynamics and Adobe Analytics because of the full stack monitoring capabilities. Where these other products allowed us to see limited slices of our environment, Dynatrace promises to give full visibility into everything. We started out …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Unsure as I was not a part of the initial POC for Dynatrace. Dynatrace was already deployed before I was employed. I wish that I could provide more detail into the differences, but I have not had the chance to review what was offer with Cisco's product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace was easier to install and provided far greater coverage. It was implemented within one day onsite without consulting services. Others had large consulting services costs. It provided detail coverage not just samples and kept the detail of all transactions and flows …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace stacks well against all competitors. It differentiated itself with its deeper analysis capabilities when it comes to down to the problems that can occur at a code level. We selected Dynatrace over the competitors for this reason as well as the vision it had for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    AppDynamics is harder to implement because you have to set up the thresholds and various parameters to get the right data. Dynatrace, the agent does it all for you. New Relic didn't integrate very well with the applications we were using.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    There are many pros and cons. For some use cases, Dynatrace far exceeds the capabilities of the competition--for instance in automatically detecting issues and performing root-cause analysis, Dynatrace is clearly ahead of the others. For cloud monitoring, Datadog seems to have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Using OneAgent, we can monitor all languages with the same agent, and the infrastructure monitoring is included.
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Dynatrace is the first and AppDynamics second
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics is still a good solution as this is one the earliest tool available in the APM space and people are used to this Application usage. However other products are also doing great as Dynatrace is the biggest competitor since it adds on all the AppDynamics features plus …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics was trialled in a shoot-out between New Relic and Dynatrace and just about edged New Relic simply for the ability to drill down to the methods and lines of code in the error monitoring, which is an invaluable feature for a development manager. New Relic Insights …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Our organization prefers AppDynamics for its focus on user experience and business metrics which is quite useful for aligning IT performance with organization goal. it is also known for its AI driven insights and monitoring capabilities making it very effective as compares to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics gives a better insight and query tuning compared to the others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics is a mature product with probably the simplest of UIs to use which is a huge benefit. I can train users to be proficient in AppDynamics in under an hour. But the product can definitely do some very advanced operations... depending on the need.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Easy to use UI. Out of box capabilities. Getting reactive to proactive within minutes of instrumentation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics excels at delivering extensive insights into the performance of apps at the code level. It enables developers to zero in on certain lines of code or modules that are causing performance difficulties, making it possible for more effective debugging and optimization. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    It's easy to customize alerts into easy notifications, view everything in a graphical manner, and it's easy to understand. AppDynamics helps us to understand and monitor our network and servers related issues before they cause an impact on our business processes or clients. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Overall value...AppDynamics won out in cost, support, and data returned for applications.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Ease of use, the fast pace of the product growth.

    Analytics and BiQ is a huge bonus for adding value to Business who ultimately are the owners as they pay for AppDynamics.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    The bank has some legacy application infrastructures that only AppD can monitor. no other competitors can monitor it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics is more a graphical representation of data, where as other tools like Splunk shows data in a table format using Query structure. AppDynamics helps is in analyzing system performance, but other tools just help to log the data and send alerts upon manual setting. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics falls under Cisco's Full Stack Observability and is now deeplyintegrated with Thousand Eyes, Secure App and Intersight covering addional monitoring layes that no other solution out there does well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics is the legacy product with the most experienced in the APM side of the business. Due to its duration in the market product has evolved and has matured to a certain level that other products have not been reached yet which gives an edge from the branding perspective.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Cisco's AppDynamics solution has been used for several years because it has a low level of complexity for registering alarms, editing dashboards, instrumenting monitoring agents, managing user credentials, and integrating with other systems, stability, and low volume of new …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Before having purchase decision, we went through PoC study and evalute the tools in APM market. I am listing key areas that Appdynamics provided better results.
    - Out of the box database performans monitoring features.
    - Aggressive pricing strategy
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    We decided to use AppDynamics because it is a tool that allows me to manage and monitor the performance of all the applications. It allows me to keep complete track of the capacity and speed with the software we develop to optimize it because it detects failures or errors. I …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    AppDynamics automatically discovers and monitors every dependency and business transaction out of the box (no manual instrumentation required). AppDynamics proprietary Dynamic Baselining takes the seasonality of your application into account and proactively alerts you on every …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Better capability set / there are more 3rd party integrations / appdynamics has a bigger profile
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk AppDynamics
    Splunk AppDynamics is ideal for enterprises seeking business-centric observability with fast, out-of-the-box performance monitoring. It connects application health to business outcomes through Business iQ, enabling real-time insights for stakeholders. With broad technology …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DynatraceSplunk AppDynamics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Dynatrace and Splunk AppDynamics
    Feature
    Dynatrace
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    Ratings
    Splunk AppDynamics
    8.5
    74 Ratings
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.474 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.872 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.771 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.971 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.659 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.544 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.842 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DynatraceSplunk AppDynamics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (344 ratings)
    8.6
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    8.5
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)