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    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.

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    New Relic

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANew Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

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    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks

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    DynatraceNew Relic
    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
    Free (Forever)
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    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
    Telemetry Data Platform
    $0.25
    per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
    Incident Intelligence
    $0.50
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    $99
    per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
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    DynatraceNew Relic
    Considered Both Products
    Dynatrace LLC
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace was the easiest to use. AppDynamics was a close second. The Dynatrace AI agent was extremely impressive. Others are working on it but don't seem to be there yet. The Dynatrace roadmap and vision (coupled with execution to this point) matched where we were going the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Before, when using APM in New Relic and SolarWinds for infrastructure, it was always difficult to pinpoint where issues came from. Now, the conversation starts out with people from those 2 groups talking on the same page with the same data, thanks to Dynatrace.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    POC between New Relic & Dynatrace was done and the teams selected Dynatrace as the preferred APM platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    AppDynamics is harder to implement because you have to set up the thresholds and various parameters to get the right data. Dynatrace, the agent does it all for you. New Relic didn't integrate very well with the applications we were using.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    We reviewed Dynatrace against AppDynamics and New Relic, and it really came down to who had the best whole package offering and price. Dynatrace, for what you pay, really gave us a great value for the money, and has helped immensely with finding problems in our environment. Ne…
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    New Relic is cheaper but with limited functions. AppDynamics is the same price, but Dynatrace's future plans fits my company's.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace is significantly better for multiple reasons: Ease of install, SaaS and Managed options availability, and level of application code level details. AppDynamics did not have a single agent and it is more cumbersome to use. New Relic only supports SaaS deployments. We …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    The setup and configuration of Dynatrace was a lot easier than New Relic. The ease of downloading the one agent configured for your environment and installing it on your hosts was very easy. The interface gives you a lot of information, and you can deep dive into details to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace offers multi-hybrid cloud environment support, whereas New Relic doesn't.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Single Agent deployment
    AI analysis that provides insight discovery and pure path
    Able to analyst performance data quickly and next hop.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Ease of deployment. Ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    When it came down to ease of implementation and ease of use, Dynatrace was the clear winner. Working with the sales team was easy as well. Of course, they could not give the tool away, but I felt like they worked as well as they could with us to get us a price we could live with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Not sure about overall capabilities between these two products. We mainly focused on APM. Switched because of licensing issues.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace is easy to on-board. Easy and quick to find any performance issues. Back-tracking of dependency calls is easy. I think these are the features missing from other APM tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Our technical team showed me the completeness of Dynatrace against the competitors. Also, the breadth of services Dynatrace offered was a selling point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace was easier to install and provided far greater coverage. It was implemented within one day onsite without consulting services. Others had large consulting services costs. It provided detail coverage not just samples and kept the detail of all transactions and flows …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace stacks well against all competitors. It differentiated itself with its deeper analysis capabilities when it comes to down to the problems that can occur at a code level. We selected Dynatrace over the competitors for this reason as well as the vision it had for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Most monitoring tools are about infrastructure monitoring and keep stuck at the levels levels of monitoring. They collect logs and you have to create your own view of the correlation. They really miss out on business impact and organic insight in your current configuration. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace's AI and problem identification works so much better than anything we've seen in other products. The management of licensing is better in Dynatrace in terms of capping specific environments. Administrating Dynatrace has gotten easier over time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Dynatrace
    Dynatrace is unique in that it auto discovers, and actually has an AI engine, instead of just a stats engine. They also support technologies better than other competitors. Finally they have a can-do, innovative attitude.
    Incentivized
    New Relic
    Chose New Relic
    10 years ago we used AppDynamics onpremise but the cost was too high and we migrated to New Relic, more economical and modern

    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is easier to login and use as it's user friendly, its full-stack capacity lets us to monitor the whole system across all the tiers. However compared to Dynatrace its deep-dive analysis capacity needs to be improved, compared to Splunk its log analysis and reporting …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Dynatrace is better when it comes to installation and use. Installing the Dynatrace agent is a very simple process. After the installation dependence map is created automatically, the tool starts gathering data and creates its own alerts, baselines, based on metrics. For me as …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Dynatrace was not as easy and solid as New Relic for the first implementation of the APM. We had more issues and we had to spend more time to setup the initial environment. New Relic also has more integrations with existing languages, frameworks, and CMS, and it has a great …
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic continuously focusing on Open Telemetry and agentic AI integrations which is helping users to focus on the latest technology and as we all know that in future Observability will be mostly on OTel concept and AI driven and New Relic focusing on those area.
    Apart from …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    The main reason is its pricing models which is value for money with respect to its features and it supports the OTEL related integrations which helps us to adopt the updations of Otel very easily and also it gives us flexible to drop the data in different stages through the …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Tracing of the services calls between the entire components in the architecture is good and easy to understand.
    Dashboarding building process is simple.
    UI is simple.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has full stack visibility and gives us all options for observability like one stop shop. It gives you front end, backend as well synthetic monitoring capabilities.

    Every other feature built into one cost model (usually) which ties to data that you send, it helps you …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Because of its easy to use, its good features, value for money.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    The New Relic Platform addresses this challenge with the new plugin architecture. Plugins provide a way to monitor each of these technologies, extending the New Relic interface with custom-made dashboards specific to each. They pair the reporting of metrics specific to the …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has been DevOps and Developer friendly to onboard and use. Also pricing-wise, it is one of the best in terms of ROI. There are few features better in other APM solutions but New Relic is working on new features faster recently.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is a SaaS-based tool where the health or sanity checks of the tool have been taken care of by the product team. So the maximum time can be invested in using the tool and making the best use of the feature available in the tool. The flexibility option it provides to …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    They are very competitive products.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    All the tools mentioned above are pretty much the same in terms of their capabilities for monitoring, reporting, and alerting. Uniqueness in New relic comes from its out-of-the-box functionality to provide visibility into every aspect of application performance and time to …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is competing neck to neck with other APM products in terms of capability, ease of doing business, implementation and configuration, prices, integrations, and future developments. No doubt New Relic is providing out of the box solution for business services monitoring …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    My background before using NR was with Java enterprise systems. Cloudwatch has recently been mentioned by OPs to be a tool to consider.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has a lot of benefits comparing to other solutions.

    The main one is usability, compared to other solutions on the market, the interface and usability beats everything else and without good user experience, the user tends to ignore the solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic's ease of implementation and easy to use portal made it quicker to adopt and implement and get value out of an APM solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    We're still evaluating both.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Pricing was the primary factor. The cost associated with New Relic works better within a budget line than either of their competitors.
    Incentivized
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    TrustRadius Insights
    DynatraceNew Relic
    Highlights

    TrustRadius
    Research Team Insight
    Published

    Dynatrace and New Relic are both Application Performance Monitoring and Management tools. Dynatrace is predominantly used by enterprises, likely because they can more easily afford the pricier product with greater capabilities. New Relic is more evenly used across enterprises and SMBs due to its lower price point and more limited root cause analysis functionality.

    Features

    Both Dynatrace and New Relic offer application performance monitoring capabilities, but at different levels of granularity to serve distinct goals.

    Dynatrace excels at troubleshooting performance issues and bugs within applications. It provides a more granular view of transactions, and enables very rapid root cause analysis. The deeper level of granularity helps users understand the why of an issue once it’s been identified. This allows users to more quickly fix the issue at hand.

    New Relic provides an aggregated view of a wide range of performance metrics. The range of measurements available allow users to more holistically track the performance of their application and traffic. New Relic focuses on showing users how well their applications are running, and what effects any performance issues are having. New Relic is also cheaper than other APM products of similar capabilities.

    Limitations

    While Dynatrace and New Relic are leaders in application monitoring, they both have certain limitations.

    Dynatrace’s pricing can be a barrier to entry for some businesses with more limited IT resources. The price factor likely contributes to the majority of Dynatrace’s users being enterprises with enterprise-level budgets. The dashboards within the platform are also limited in customizability and can be unwieldy to use.

    New Relic struggles to provide deeper or individual event-level visibility into application performance. This becomes particularly relevant as users deviate from the most common and popular coding languages. The tool can also present a more substantial learning curve, especially for less experienced users.

    Pricing

    Dynatrace’s pricing is based on quotes from the vendor. However, Dynatrace does offer flexible payment models, ranging from consumption-based plans and annual plans to perpetual licenses. It also offers a 15 day free trial of the platform before committing to a subscription.

    New Relic does advertise two paid plans. The “Essentials” plan starts at $12.50/month, and it includes 3 days of metric data and insights events retention, basic performance measurements, and unlimited containers and custom attributes. New Relic also offers the “Pro” plan starting at $25/month, which offers 90 days of metric data retention and 8 days of Insights events retention, as well as more sophisticated performance metrics like service maps, SLA tracking, and deployment tracking. New Relic also offers a free trial that runs for 14 days for all accounts.

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    User Ratings
    DynatraceNew Relic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (344 ratings)
    7.4
    (148 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    6.7
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DynatraceNew Relic
    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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    New Relic
    New Relic its an excellent tool for monitoring services used on the SAAS universe, like web servers, relational and nosql dbms, reverse proxies, text databases, etc. Its also a powerful tool to monitor resource usage on said servers. However, its not well fitted to monitor custom services - if you need to generate alerts based on logs or database information, for example
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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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    New Relic
    • It gives us insights of applications, infrastructure, clouds very well.
    • The alerting system in New Relic helps us to easily identify the root cause which reduces the MTTR.
    • It has new features related to AI which helps to troubleshoot any problem in a very short time it gives future predictions also.
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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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    New Relic
    • And while powerful, building tailored dashboards with organ-specific metrics (such as energy load variance across regions) can be difficult to navigate. The UI isn't as drag-and-drop easy, and query-based widgets typically involve some trial and error for non-devs.
    • Alerts may be hypersensitive or over general. I We often get a spam of non-critical alerts while doing load testing, all overhauling to me alone and making it difficult to identify actual issues especially in energy systems where spikes are very common.
    • With our expanding fleet of Iot devices, the per-host pricing model is becoming expensive, quickly. More detailed billing based on microservices, or that works at sensor level, would make it more adaptable for energy platforms.
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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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    New Relic
    The only issue that we have had with New Relic is that the price might be a little expensive for smaller companies. The amount of data you store in New Relic impacts the cost, and can get away from you if you don't work closely with the vendor. Overall though the application is top notch.
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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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    New Relic
    I have given this much rating as I am used New Relic in different sectors and for different use cases like its K8s monitoring, infra monitoring, full stack monitoring as compare to other tools New Relic gives data in a formatted and connected way, and also it is giving us value for money. It also launches new features day by day which helps users to track the issue very quickly. It also supports OTel integrations which is the latest trend of observability tools. thats why I had given this much rating to New Relic.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
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    Performance
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    New Relic
    there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.
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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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    New Relic
    The support team has been really helpful and resolved most of the issues on time. However, for a couple of issues, several follow-ups were needed to elicit a reasonable response. The issue was deeply technical and could have been investigated only by their Architects, and bringing them into the ticket took longer than needed
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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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    New Relic
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    New Relic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Dynatrace LLC
    Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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    New Relic
    It's better to start by implementing New Relic in one project and test everything. Try to follow best recommended practices and read all the official documentation. Everything seems well tested. Then, start by installing agents to the rest of your projects and keep a close look to all logs and metrics New Relic gives you.
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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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    New Relic
    Data Dog has solutions that look more attractive, but not at their price point. We have also tried to build a solution straight from the Cloud, where our business is built, but some things are too hard to replicate. This shows that New Relic is useful and helps our efficiency.
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    Scalability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    New Relic
    Agent deployment is easily integrated into our workflow. Adding the agent to new servers is quick and painless
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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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    New Relic
    • We were able to quickly identify our most time consuming APIs. In some cases we were able to bring down times for some apis from 4s to 200ms.
    • We were able to identify our slowest database queries and optimize them for quicker response times.
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