Dynatrace vs. Prometheus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynatrace
Score 7.4 out of 10
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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.N/A
Prometheus
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
Pricing
DynatracePrometheus
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DynatracePrometheus
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
DynatracePrometheus
Considered Both Products
Dynatrace
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace leads the pack when you are looking for application performance monitoring, but the other tools are better suited for certain areas of specialty. Elasticsearch is better than Dynatrace at log aggregation. Prometheus is better than Dynatrace at collecting custom …
Chose Dynatrace
Dynatrace beats the others with Davis and the AI used to auto-detect problems, easy install, all out-of-the-box metrics and functionalities.
Chose Dynatrace
It's been a good couple of years since I used CA-APM, but it's no where close to Dynatrace.
Chose Dynatrace
Splunk is more expensive than Dynatrace. Dynatrace met all the requirements that we were looking for in the APM monitoring tool. It has excellent premium customer support.
Chose Dynatrace
Extremely robust, the agent is easy to deploy and detects technologies automatically, API is very mature and complete. Product maturity and industry clout.
Chose Dynatrace
Blows them away. There is no comparison - if you are truly working on moving forward this is the only tool to consider. Growing complexity cannot be handled with a last generation tool.
Prometheus
Chose Prometheus
It was easy to implement in our enviroment compared to the other products which has a lot of challenges in the POC period it self. We have been looking for a quick solution as it was implemented during COVID, hence we were trying to take advantage of this software to see how it …
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Small Businesses
InfluxDB
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Instana
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Score 9.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
DynatracePrometheus
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(341 ratings)
8.2
(34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(9 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
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Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.2
(201 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
7.9
(8 ratings)
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Configurability
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
DynatracePrometheus
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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Open Source
This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission.
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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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Open Source
  • Best monitoring tool that have covered all aspects of our environment of my organization with it's useful metrics.
  • Great support team offers support 24/7 and very dedicated.
  • It provides excellent insights from a variety of metrics.
  • Cloud native tools compatibility and support, push/pull options for easier metrics.
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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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Open Source
  • As I said earlier I have not encountered any major drawback just minor challenges like new users may find Prometheus a bit overwhelming with its different modules can bring confusion.
  • Also they can face issues with PromQL can be somehow complex while building an advanced dashboard.
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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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Open Source
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Usability
Dynatrace LLC
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.
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Open Source
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Reliability and Availability
Dynatrace LLC
Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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Open Source
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Performance
Dynatrace LLC
We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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Open Source
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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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Open Source
Never had to reach out to them.
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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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Open Source
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Online Training
Dynatrace LLC
The training was done on our time and with our system.
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Open Source
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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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Open Source
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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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Open Source
Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical.
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Scalability
Dynatrace LLC
Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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Open Source
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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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Open Source
  • We are still working on the ROI
  • The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI.
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