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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dynatrace

    Score8.5 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

    Splunk Observability Cloud

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Observability Cloud aims to enable operational agility and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. It is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services.

    $180

    per year per host

    Pricing
    DynatraceSplunk Observability Cloud
    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
    Infrastructure
    $15
    per month (billed annually) per host
    App & Infra
    $60
    per month (billed annually) per host
    End-to-End
    $75
    per month (billed annually) per host
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DynatraceSplunk Observability Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DynatraceSplunk Observability Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Dynatrace LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
    Splunk is superior in many ways to these solutions when I'm comes to ingesting, storing, manipulating, and using data, but dynatraces automatic agents do make it much easier to use out of the box. Nagios seems much cheaper but does not provide as much functionality as Splunk. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
    I selected Splunk Observability Cloud because it focused so much on OTEL standards which will help us in future as OTEL is covering most of the observability standards. And also it has the best Kubernetes observability as I already explained it has several predefined dashboards …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Observability Cloud
    The use of a single integration and definition of custom metrics, and tags is a great advantage. The ability to use SignalFlow to observe metrics in addition to the vast number of out-of-the-box dashboards is also excellent.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    208 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    55 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    171 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    48 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    203 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    57 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    151 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    164 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    Features
    DynatraceSplunk Observability Cloud
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Dynatrace and Splunk Observability Cloud
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    8.1
    4 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Splunk Observability Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Dynatrace and Splunk Observability Cloud
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.4
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Splunk Observability Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation6.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Dynatrace and Splunk Observability Cloud
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.4
    4 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Splunk Observability Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports6.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Dynatrace and Splunk Observability Cloud
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.7
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Splunk Observability Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control6.82 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    DynatraceSplunk Observability Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (348 ratings)
    7.9
    (59 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DynatraceSplunk Observability Cloud
    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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    Cisco
    Its great if you need real-time visibility across complex or regulated environments. Also strong for hybrid or multi-cloud setups where uptime, observability and fast IR are required. It’s probably overkill for smaller teams or environments that don’t have constant changes or compliance reporting needs. It's expensive and has a steep learning curve. Also, in my opinion, do not get yourself into a consumption based model. Costs can certainly get out of control quickly.
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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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    Cisco
    • The first one is its Kubernetes container monitoring.
    • I really like this features because as we know how much K8s is vast and to manually monitor each part of the Kubernetes it takes so much time but Splunk Observability Cloud makes it easier. And even once we integrate K8s with Splunk Observability Cloud it gives us some prebuilt dashboards which gives holistic view of our Cluster and its nodes, pods, etc.
    • The dashbaord feature of Splunk Observability Cloud, it gives us full flexibility to customize our dashboard with a wide range of predefined chart types.
    • Now it also supports OTEL, which is a plus point for observability. As now everyone is moving towards Otel and in current market there are only few tools who supports OTEL based integrations, Splunk Observability Cloud is one out of them.
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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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    Cisco
    • You can use table-like functionality to generate dashboards, but these queries are heavy on the system.
    • It could be easier to give insight into what type of line parsing is used for specific documents in a company-managed environment and/or show ways to gain the insights needed.
    • I would like to see ways to anonymize specific data for shared reports without pre-formatting this in a dashboard on which reports could be based.
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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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    Cisco
    Good: Stable system with low error rate Easy to use for simple use cases Bad: UI is not very clear for complex usage Mobile view (when logged in from phone) is bad No library for .net
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    Usability
    Dynatrace LLC
    In my POV, Dynatrace UI is really well finished. It's intuitive, even if you never used before you'd be able to navigate and found what you want. In other hand, if you want to know deeper you'll easily find out that with a little effort you'll make it. Dynatrace has a great Documentation available online, and public, it's a really accessible reading.
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    Cisco
    When there is an issue, it’s a win if one can easily identify the root cause. To do the same, it should allow the user to dig deep with multiple data points and compare the data and identify the anomaly. In this use case, it’s good to drive from Splunk 011y.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.
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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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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    Follow a training before starting.
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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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    Cisco
    Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides far superior options for anybody using a complex hybrid multi-cloud environment and allows both your SOC and NOC to work together on the same data while driving their own insights. We found other products are still in the old world view of servers and agents residing together within a single data centre, but modern apps are no longer like this.
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    Scalability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    • Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously.
    • Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics.
    • Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost.
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