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.
Read full review ObservePoint is a great tool for automating page testing and standardizing campaigns to observe accurate customer insights. You can identify customer mapping journey. They also help in data protection and insights which are very important and essential these days. They should work more on easy interface designs. Overall, it is the best.
Read full review 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. Read full review The UI for ObservePoint is intuitive and robust. This makes training new engineers and using the product easy and productive. All Audit exports are formatted as tab delimited text files making the data easy to analyze and manipulate in a Spreadsheet or database. The list of tag vendors that are discoverable is comprehensive making it easy to interrogate most any tagging implementation. Standard reporting within the UI is robust and easy to consume. Read full review 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. Read full review Page details, although interesting, are not very useful as the data is too granular and not possible to integrate with other analytics data for insights. Some of the custom tagging may be a little complicated, so sometimes we need an engineer or an ObservePoint tech to help us out. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review ObservePoint has a robust solution that is well supported and is continually innovating to meet new business and technology needs.
Read full review Usability I really liked how easy it was to deploy the SaaS vesion of Dynatrace in our environment. We have a lot of tools that have plenty of capability but they don't get a whole lot of use because they would require someone who is an expert to use them. With the SaaS version of Dynatrace, all the admin functions are taken care of by the Dynatrace team (updates, patches, new features, bugs, etc.) and our small shop can focus on getting valuable metrics, alerts and issue resolution from the product.
Read full review It's easy to navigate and learn. The reporting and output are intuitive and robust features for finding and identifying actionable insight.
Read full review Reliability and Availability Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
Read full review I've only experienced one system availability issue in the 3 years we've been using it.
Read full review Performance We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
Read full review Sometimes it can get a bit slow when auditing particularly huge sites but recent upgrades in infrastructure have done a lot to mitigate this behavior.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Support is very strong indeed and has been consistent over the last 4 years. They are also friendly and tag nerds like me!
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Read full review In-Person Training We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
Read full review Instructor was knowledgeable and delivered the content well.
Read full review Online Training The training was done on our time and with our system.
Read full review It's easy to find the information you need when you need it and it is easy to consume.
Read full review Implementation Rating Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
Read full review Start with small audits until you have determined what you might want to filter out.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review I have not used any other product other than ObservePoint for my requirements. there are a number of features for which it has proved helpful. Technology Governance ensures our data collection tools and processes are executing as planned, so our organization can make better decisions based on better data and so on
Read full review Scalability Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
Read full review I have not reached an unreasonable product limitation as of yet.
Read full review 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. Read full review ObservePoint has helped us quickly (within minutes) catch when a process or pathing on the website breaks, which allows us to fix it quickly. Whether technical/dev or analytics issues, without ObservePoint, they could have been undetected for weeks. Read full review ScreenShots