Dynatrace vs. Glassbox

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynatrace
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Dynatrace 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
Glassbox
Score 6.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Glassbox helps organizations make their customer’s digital experience intuitive and safe. It does this by capturing activity on mobile apps and websites and visualizing a holistic journey map. Using embedded AI Glassbox points to where CX is being compromised, the reasons behind it, and their potential value and empowers users to take action in real-time.N/A
Pricing
DynatraceGlassbox
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
DynatraceGlassbox
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Dynatrace
Chose Dynatrace
Single Agent deployment
AI analysis that provides insight discovery and pure path
Able to analyst performance data quickly and next hop.
Chose Dynatrace
New relic was mostly like readonly dashboard and restricted how we slice and dice the data presented to us. Ability to drill down was seriously limited.
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace UI seems better compared to splunk also DT gives better flexibility in terms of plans and costs. For logging monitoring we are using splunk and splunk is better for that purpose. But hosts and server monitoring and alerting perspective Dynatrace is better. Dynatrace …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace gives the overall picture of the application usage and performance by default with minimal configurations whereas in Datadog a lot of manual intervention is required to analyze the application performance and troubleshooting the issues. Dynatrace is user-friendly when …
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 …
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 …
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Dynatrace has better PHP microservice monitoring than AppDynamics. There is also no sampling.
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is far superior to the other products. The single pane of glass and ease of use are why we chose Dynatrace.
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 …
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. …
Chose Dynatrace
BMC was only a basic APM with not much detail or drilling into the issue. It only showed there was a problem with the host. Before Dynatrace, to troubleshoot an issue we had to log into different consoles for different applications and review logs. Now with a quick visual and a …
Chose Dynatrace
The Dynatrace product was much more feature-rich than New Relic. We went through multiple proofs of concepts with each vendor using our actual system. We found that both did some things the same but in other areas, the Dynatrace product was much better. There was a black box …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is much more expensive than Pingdom, but it does a better job of doing synthetic monitors and the credential store is much better. When it comes to availability it does a better job of creating of synthetic monitors and it can create a credential store which is a big …
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.
Chose Dynatrace
I would consider Network Application Monitoring as looking at and under the foundation, while Dynatrace provides insights to the house and structure.
Chose Dynatrace
We didn't like AppDynamics as much we like Dynatrace.
Chose Dynatrace
I have not evaluated any other monitoring products. Our company has evaluated other products that have not stacked up against Dynatrace. Dynatrace has deeper monitoring than others and provides excellent alerting capabilities. Dynatrace was selected for those features as well …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace provides the best insights into our environment from end to end. It provides user sessions throughout the application so, we can see exactly what users are doing and potentially not only fix problems but provide improvements before any issues arise. There is no …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is superior to all other products on the market.
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace is much easier and more thorough than DX APM.
Glassbox
Chose Glassbox
LogRocket is more suited for entry-level application and lacks the more advanced, in-depth analysis capabilities that we need, and that Glassbox offers.
Chose Glassbox
A key factor in our decision was Glassbox's real-time data export capabilities, which aligned perfectly with our needs, as does the ability to integrate Glassbox insights with our existing data systems.
Chose Glassbox
There is less data about the session in contentsquare so even when we saw users were leaving we could not tell why
Chose Glassbox
We chose Glassbox over ContentSquare because it offers an integrated VoC solution that is directly linked to session data. This gives us a much deeper understanding of the context behind the customer feedback.
Chose Glassbox
We required a solution that meets our rigid security standards, in other words, one that offers an isolated environment for data storage. As the only platform to offer Single Tenant storage, Glassbox definitely rises above the competition in this regard.
Chose Glassbox
We chose Glassbox instead of Contentsquare primarily because of Glassbox's built-in VoC solution, which is linked directly to session data. This feature really helps contextualize customer sentiment data and makes the feedback even more insightful.
Chose Glassbox
When we were looking into DEM solutions, we considered going with Datadog, but it focuses primarily on technical issues as opposed to capturing and analyzing user experience struggles (for example, why our customers are abandoning our site). This is really what we were looking …
Chose Glassbox
After considering both Contentsquare and Glassbox, we chose to go with Glassbox because it provided an environment that was more suited to our security constraints. (We require a Single Tenant solution, which only Glassbox was able to provide).
Chose Glassbox
  1. Improved understanding of customer behavior: Glassbox provides a detailed view of how customers interact with a website, mobile app, and other digital channels. This information is essential for understanding customer behavior and identifying areas where the business can …
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox is a customer experience management platform that provides various tools to help organizations understand and improve the customer journey. There may be other products that offer similar capabilities, such as FullStory, UserTesting, and Clicktale. These products may …
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox offered the server side capabilities we needed over anyone. Glassbox does not rely on massive custom event packages. Glassbox user interface is very simple and user friendly. The adhoc reports and fairly easy to use. It is an enteprise wide application and is not …
Chose Glassbox
Google Analytics is great in managing our campaigns and in telling us the levels of conversion. The same for our a/B testing tools which tell us which test is converting higher than the other. The problem with these tools is that they do not tell you the why behind the what - …
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox was able to provide a solution to both a technical and experience use cases. Glassbox put same emphasis on the technical and experience struggles which provide us with more data than any other tools we've seen. Glassbox also ties all events to revenue which helps us …
Chose Glassbox
The ability to integrate our current tools with Glassbox has been one of our major priorities. We have quite a lot of tools we use and we needed an analytics tool that could integrate with all of them: VoC, A/B testing, Google analytics, Adobe, Jira, and more. I love that all …
Chose Glassbox
The automatic tagging abilities were very important for us as we do not have the resources to tag all the website events. The 100% data is crucial to make more informed decisions. The Glassbox service team is also great and very helpful.
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox is an all in one tool which is excellent for multiple teams with multiple goals - customer service, UX/UI, product teams, and more. We were also really impressed with the Glassbox teams before signing - very professional and knowledgeable
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox has a very good integration with multiple product and customer feedabck tools such as A/B testing and VoC
Chose Glassbox
We needed advanced customization abilities and to relate campaigns to revenue both of which Glassbox does extremaly well
Chose Glassbox
More customization options, product road map is aligned with the market needs and great customer success team. The system is clean and very easy to use which made the learning of the different abilities a lot easier and much more smooth
Chose Glassbox
More intuitive, and the amount of data is really great. I loved the clean UI of the session replay.
Chose Glassbox
Adobe Analytics is more accurate with data but doesn't have the capabilities like Glassbox (interaction map, session replays, etc.) so we have to cross check data to ensure the information is accurate.
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox capabilities match our main use cases and can generate huge amount of business data in real time.
Chose Glassbox
The integrations abilities as well as the quick and easy implantation of the tool.
Chose Glassbox
Glassbox covers everything - from technical to experience related events and the integration with our existing tools is super important for us as we stream data from our VoC and analytics tools to Glassbox and can use one centralized system for all our use cases. The support is …
Chose Glassbox
More integrations and easily sharable data
Features
DynatraceGlassbox
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Dynatrace
-
Ratings
Glassbox
9.6
Ratings
23% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Mobile App Analytics00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Dynatrace
-
Ratings
Glassbox
9.5
Ratings
1% above category average
Click analytics00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Scroll maps00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Conversion tracking00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Goal tracking00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Funnel Analysis00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Session Recording and Replay00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
User Segmentation00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Smartlook
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 10.0 out of 10
Contentsquare
Contentsquare
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 10.0 out of 10
Contentsquare
Contentsquare
Score 7.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
DynatraceGlassbox
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.9
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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9.1
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Usability
7.9
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8.7
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Availability
8.2
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Performance
7.3
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(0 ratings)
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In-Person Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.9
(0 ratings)
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Configurability
7.3
(0 ratings)
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Ease of integration
7.3
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Product Scalability
7.3
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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I’ve found that Glassbox is particularly well-suited during marketing campaigns, because you can export and analyze data in real-time, track the campaign’s effectiveness, and gain immediate insight into how customers are interacting with your website. With these insights, we’re able to tweak campaigns on the fly to increase engagement and conversion rates. Similarly, since Glassbox allows us to monitor customer interactions in real-time, we gain immediate feedback on how our users are engaging with a new digital feature on our platform, for example. We can then quickly identify any usability issues or friction points, make adjustments in real-time to improve the user experience, and maximize the success of the new feature.
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Pros
  • 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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  • I like the ease of access that is provided to our internal users
  • Super easy integration with our site and other tools
  • The ability to navigate to any session, review the details and make actionable notes for resolution
  • The ability to exclude sensitive information from being recorded.
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Cons
  • 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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  • It's a pretty powerful platform, and my sense is that most users don't utilize it to its fullest potential. Glassbox could help by offering a more comprehensive onboarding program (maybe even customized training sessions or live workshops tailored to the needs and use cases of FSIs)
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Likelihood to Renew
We have got tremendous support and response from the dynatrace support team as well as the larger community. We still have issues like the lack of role based administration, but we are told that it may be coming in a future release. The team is very supportive and has assisted us in several tough situations.
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The level of support from the Glassbox team and how much we have improved our conversion just after a few months
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Usability
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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Glassbox is very easy to use, and with the AI features which it has inside, it has been very easy for us to not only find the relevant sessions but also summarize them and interact with the summary - so we now have all types of people in our org who use Glassbox - including those who are purely non-tech. Also, I must give a huge shoutout to our customer support team who have been instrumental in helping us get value from Glassbox
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Reliability and Availability
Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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Performance
We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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Support Rating
I wish I could have given the ten points but based on my experience in past I am reducing by two points as the penalty. But I am sure that it will have improved in the past few months. They need some improvement on ticket handling. Overall I appreciate some of the support folks who responded quickly and also were ready to jump on the Webex and get the problem understood to fix it.
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In-Person Training
We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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Online Training
The training was done on our time and with our system.
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Implementation Rating
Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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Alternatives Considered
Like I mentioned earlier, Dynatrace is a great tool but comes with a heavy price tag. On the other hand, Foglight offers a slightly lower level of expertise in application monitoring but fulfils almost all the requirements you would commonly have. The only major feature lacking in Foglight is the predictive monitoring feature. If you are an SME struggling with budgets, then predictive monitoring is something you can certainly live without.
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When we were looking into DEM solutions, we considered going with Datadog, but it focuses primarily on technical issues as opposed to capturing and analyzing user experience struggles (for example, why our customers are abandoning our site). This is really what we were looking for, which made Glassbox a perfect fit.
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Scalability
Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Glassbox has really taken us to the next level in terms of customer sentiment analysis and informed decision-making. We're capturing 100% of customer sessions, and with Glassbox we're able to address hidden issues and make decisions that enhance the experience of our entire customer base, as opposed to just a select few. Our strategic decisions are now based on accurate, comprehensive data, and we're seeing the fruits of this. Our customers are more engaged (and more loyal), our conversion rates are climbing, and our business is growing.
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