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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    Dynatrace

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADynatrace is an enterprise software platform that provides Application Performance Management (APM), full-stack Observability, and automated operational analytics across multi-cloud and hybrid IT environments. The platform ingests telemetry data—including metrics, logs, traces, and user-experience data—to automate system health monitoring, root-cause fault detection, and digital performance management.

    $0

    per synthetic request

    Pricing
    CloudflareDynatrace
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    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
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudflareDynatrace
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CloudflareDynatrace
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    No answer on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    206 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    169 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    201 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    149 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    162 Answers
    Features
    CloudflareDynatrace
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Cloudflare and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Dynatrace
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Cloudflare and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Cloudflare and Dynatrace
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    Dynatrace
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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    CloudflareDynatrace
    Small Businesses
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    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudflareDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    8.0
    (345 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudflareDynatrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    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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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    • 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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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    Dynatrace LLC
    We have already renewed our purchase with the company. They make it easy for us to get a temporary license for our contingency site that is only used for testing twice a year. We are expanding our license with for this tool. We find it very useful and will renew it again.
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    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
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Given that Dynatrace has become an informal industry standard, the plethora of information available on forums is massive. Most problems or roadblocks you come across are most likely (almost certainly, in fact) already solved and solutions available on these forums. The tech support at Dynatrace is also quite good, with prompt and knowledgeable people at their end.
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    In-Person Training
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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    Online Training
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Synthetic Monitoring automatically does what other products do only through the use of other tools or through the development of user applications that still have a high cost of maintenance. The other products are not immediately usable and require many customizations. Through the use of configuration automatisms, you can be immediately operational and, in our case, we detected several imperfections in the applications.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    Dynatrace LLC
    • 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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