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    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

    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…N/A
    Pricing
    DynatraceIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    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
    DynatraceIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    DynatraceIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Considered Both Products
    Dynatrace LLC
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    206 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    169 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    25 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    201 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    149 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    162 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    DynatraceIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Dynatrace and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    -
    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 IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Dynatrace and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    8.1
    20 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.520 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings7.820 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings7.720 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DynatraceIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (345 ratings)
    8.0
    (86 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    8.7
    (16 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)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    DynatraceIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    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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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service also stands out in environments where the workloads vary continuously and require befitting scale. The product excels particularly in microservices structures, wherein the companies would harness the capacity for container orchestration and automated scaling. Still, it may face the challenges due to monolith applications that have not been originally developed for using container technology.
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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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    IBM
    • IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
    • Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
    • Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
    • Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.
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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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    IBM
    • I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
    • Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
    • Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
    • UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator
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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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    IBM
    We have our application running on a CentOS compartment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been utilizing the help since IBM Cloud initially dispatched. We liked the adaptability and versatility that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service give us. Since we are tiny, the Kubernetes administration is just utilized at present inside my venture bunch.
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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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    IBM
    We actually haven't had any real problems in our clusters recently and the results we have gotten from adopting IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service have been beyond even our greatest expectations. The community has helped optimize the use of the system and make it relatively simpler to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    IBM
    IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
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    Performance
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    IBM
    IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0
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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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    IBM
    The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera)
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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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    IBM
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    Online Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    IBM
    Online training is really an important resource for using these tools. IBM's help center is rich in useful information and tips. Also, external guides and tutorials are available (e.g. on youtube), but I followed only IBM ones and I had no difficulties.
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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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    IBM
    Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.
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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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    IBM
    We mainly selected [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] because IBM fabric blockchain service is mostly compatible with it. To have all the infrastructure in a single cloud to get the best output we selected the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service].
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    Scalability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    IBM
    IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well
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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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    IBM
    • Increased development speed and agility allows to build features faster and more economically.
    • Improved resource utilization helps keep applications running very efficiently, which saves on cloud service expenses.
    • Scalability and resilience allows for scaling up or down based on demand, which keeps applications running efficiently and more economically.
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