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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dynatrace

    Score8.5 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

    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AF5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.N/A
    Pricing
    DynatraceF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    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 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    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
    DynatraceF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Considered Both Products
    Dynatrace LLC
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    207 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    163 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    DynatraceF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Dynatrace and F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring9.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Dynatrace and F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Dynatrace and F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    4% below category average
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
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    Ratings
    Performance data reports7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Dynatrace and F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
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    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DynatraceF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (347 ratings)
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    -
    (0 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)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    DynatraceF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    F5
    I believe that in industrial environments like ours where we have to have bare metal devices near the production environment combined with hybrid cloud, that is a good platform. That's a good use case. It optimizes traffic. It helps us stay more secure in our data centers. Now with regards to that are fully operating in the cloud, I'm not really sure if we would make the same decision considering the option that I said to have something that is self-provision to avoid too much management of virtual machines on the cloud. So that's an area of improvement.
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    Pros
    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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    F5
    • So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.
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    Cons
    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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    F5
    • The UI for events. E.g., clicking the "Accept" button does nothing.
    • Traffic learning suggestions are often very incorrect. We were originally suggested to use "Automatic" learning, and had to completely scrap the policy due to the suggestions.
    • "All in one" dashboard for viewing application URL/parameter overrides per policy.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    F5
    We just love work with f5
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    Usability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace is feature rich and often many way to get to the required data. We have 150+ users and one thing we have to do is provide training. Otherwise users can get lost when drilling down through services and traces. The filtering options help to reduce the noise and focus on the area concerned. When give people access to logs we need guardrails to ensure queries are targeted. This helps with cost control.
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    F5
    Most* of it is very intuitive and easy to use. The "Help" section is fairly fantastic. See some of my other comments about things like the "Traffic Learning" section being wildly wrong sometimes, and also the event logs with UI buttons that don't do anything. Overall though, it's an excellent product.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    F5
    Highly knowledgeable engineers who understand complex networking and application-delivery issues.


    Strong escalation paths — once a case reaches senior engineers, resolutions are fast and accurate.


    Comprehensive documentation and many self-service resources for troubleshooting.


    Clear communication with well-structured updates throughout the ticket lifecycle.


    Excellent for critical incidents, with reliable guidance during high-severity outages.


    Deep product expertise across BIG-IP, ASM/Advanced WAF, GTM/DNS, and modern F5 services.
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    In-Person Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    F5
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    Implementation Rating
    Dynatrace LLC
    Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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    F5
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    F5
    -Stable data path equals to less crashes -Almost all the features working as expected -Provides more granular controls in allowing false positives -Request evaluation is accurate -Irules feature is a plus
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    Scalability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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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    F5
    • One impact F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF has on our organization's overall business objectives is that F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF is security sensitive
    • Another impact F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF has on our organization's overall business objectives is the F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF blocking feature
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