CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager vs Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM)

Likelihood to Recommend

It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, has improved greatly compared to when it was DCRUM; however, it still needs a lot of improvement in end-to-end flow capture with regards to network monitoring. Its alerting and integration capabilities are very good and easy to use. But it still needs a lot of tweaking in usability.

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Kiran Yakkala

Tools Lead

CognizantInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM)

Application monitoring

Database monitoring

Threshold alerts

Predictive capabilities

Application performance management console

Collaboration tools

Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications

Application dependency mapping and thresholding

Virtualization monitoring

Server availability and performance monitoring

Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

IT Asset Discovery

Pros

Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.

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Contributor in Engineering

Internet Company, 10,001+ employees

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Dynatrace DCRUM can monitor legacy application protocols that are still used in a lot of organizations worldwide who still trust in those technologies.
DCRUM monitors client-server architectures very well and can pinpoint issues along an infrastructure stack.
Dynatrace DCRUM can analyze a wide spectre of protocols: Corba, DNS, DB2, Exchange, TCP, HTTP, IBM MQ, Citrix, ICMP, Informix, Tuxedo, SMB, LDAP, MSRPC, MySQL, NetFlow, Net8, Oracle Forms, RMI, SAP GUI, SAP HANA, SAP RFC, SMB, SOAP, XML.

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Jose Adan Ortiz

Sales Engineer

Mainsoft S.A.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.

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Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Major upgrades process is sometimes unpredictable.
The use of SQL Server should be evaluated for something else.
Easier SSL key handling.

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Ulf Thornander

Senior APM Specialist

Red Ocean SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

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Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM) 10.0

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Best of breed.

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Ulf Thornander

Senior APM Specialist

Red Ocean SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM) 9.0

Based on 2 answers

The only thing missing for a 10, would be if they texted or called you back.

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Ulf Thornander

Senior APM Specialist

Red Ocean SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.

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Verified User

Contributor in Engineering

Internet Company, 10,001+ employees

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Nagios can't trace real user transactions from a front-end tier through a backend-tier,;with Nagios you only can monitor server availability and hardware issues. Riverbed is commonly used to determine networking issues without considering real user transactions impact on an application stack.

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Jose Adan Ortiz

Sales Engineer

Mainsoft S.A.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, helped us get a lot of info on an ongoing issue.
It helped us figure out network bottlenecks in our environment.
It is a very costly tool and a lot of other cheaper tools give same kind of info.

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Kiran Yakkala

Tools Lead

CognizantInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM)

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM)

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM)

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager vs Dynatrace NAM (formerly DCRUM)