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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A
    Pricing
    DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    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 WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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    Dynatrace LLC
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    206 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    162 Answers
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    142 Answers
    Features
    DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Dynatrace and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Dynatrace and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (345 ratings)
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DynatraceF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    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
    It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
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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
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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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
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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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 gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
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    Usability
    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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    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Performance
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
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    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
    I never contacted support for this product.
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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
    Online training saves me lots of time
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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
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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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
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
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    Scalability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
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    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
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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