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What is Dynatrace?
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.
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What is Dynatrace?
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.
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What is Dynatrace?
Dynatrace is an AI-centered software intelligence platform. It includes APM features scaled for enterprises and with individual transaction-level monitoring capabilities as well as infrastructure monitoring, AIOps, digital business analytics, and digital experience monitoring. Businesses use the Dynatrace platform to collaborate internally and deliver value to users with minimal effort.
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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.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.4.
The most common users of Dynatrace are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Dynatrace is a versatile software that offers a wide range of use cases for monitoring and optimizing applications and infrastructure. Users have found the tool to be extremely valuable in measuring the performance of key business applications and enabling error analysis and outage remediation. Dynatrace is utilized by organizations to monitor applications and infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud, providing operational support to infrastructure and application teams by rapidly identifying and resolving problems. The software is also instrumental in providing automation capabilities, empowering different departments to onboard and benefit from its monitoring capabilities. With its ability to catch issues before they impact customers, Dynatrace ensures availability, performance, and root cause analysis for tier 1 applications. It proves to be essential for troubleshooting incidents, conducting health checks, and gaining insight into dependencies for business and product engineering operations teams. Additionally, Dynatrace offers robustness that allows managing large environments with a small team. Being rolled out across the organization, it helps accelerate deployments to modern technologies and streamlines problem detection. Overall, Dynatrace serves as a crucial tool in understanding critical application issues, improving customer satisfaction, increasing the frequency of deployments, addressing performance issues, and making informed business decisions.
To get the most out of Dynatrace, users recommend the following actions:
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Conduct thorough research and ensure buy-in from executive leadership and all app and infrastructure teams before committing to Dynatrace.
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Start by setting up Dynatrace correctly and build meaningful dashboards and management zones to optimize monitoring needs and gain valuable insights.
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Leverage Dynatrace's professional services to speed up deployment and make the most of the product. Take advantage of the study material available on university.dynatrace.com to enhance knowledge and skills.
By following these recommendations, users believe that Dynatrace can provide comprehensive monitoring capabilities, quickly identify performance issues, and assist in effective issue resolution.
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February 06, 2020
Dynatrace provides observibility to our entire infrastructure
Dynatrace is used to monitor both our legacy applications and our PaaS platform microservices. It solves the problem of having complete visibility into the lifecycle of transactions.
- Customizable
- Lots of integrations
- Slack Integration
- Could be easier to define an entire application suite (frontend, backend microservices, database)
February 06, 2020
Solid APM tool
Dynatrace is currently being used at a department in my org. It helps us identifying slowness and overall application performance for the full stack. It helps identify the issue very quickly and reduce negative impacts on the website.
- Root cause analysis
- Problem detection
- AWS Fargate
February 06, 2020
AppMon to Dynatrace
Dynatrace is used to measure and monitor our application performance and our customer's experience. Dynatrace helps us to identify issues in our environment and get to a root cause quickly. We rely on the Dynatrace AI to evaluate large amounts of data from our complex environment and provides good insight at a glance.
- Root cause analysis with AI.
- Ease of configuration with API's.
- Support for legacy technologies that AppMon currently supports.
- Better dashboarding capabilities.
February 06, 2020
Dynatrace Review
The product is used throughout the whole IT organization. We use it to diagnose the problems and root cause analysis.
- New and open technology adoption.
- Instant support through chat.
- Reporting.
- Integration with Google like Spanner DB.
February 06, 2020
Dynatrace helps us manage a large system with a few people
We currently use Dynatrace to monitor our front end and back end infrastructure as well as digital performance monitoring. We are rolling it out across the organization and helping to onboard departments within the company to use the tool. Dynatrace helps us to provide support to the other development teams in helping them identify the root cause of issues as well as alerting on performance issues so they can be resolved quickly. Dynatrace allows us to manage a large environment with a small team because the product is very robust.
- The customer support is the best I've ever experienced. They actually listen and make changes as we recommend them.
- The self-discovery abilities of the one agent allows mapping of the environment without manual effort.
- Custom metrics pricing.
- Using dem units on synthetic actions.
February 06, 2020
Mighty powerful
Dynatrace supports operations at the moment. Recently we have been implementing RUM to help with troubleshooting of user sessions. Session replay and user information has been very helpful. We are trying to get started with log analytics and metrics. Dynatrace has made it easier to visualize operational status of internal and AWS infrastructure. It helped with the mobile app monitoring for user session performance troubleshooting. We are planning to get started with CI/CD automation and planning to use Dynatrace events to help with problem resolution and help desk supports.
- Automated data collection and centralized configuration.
- Visualizing the data is easy and powerful.
- Dynatrace data and its abilities are not covered in depth enough in documentation.
- Web UI is overwhelming as all the data can be reached in many different ways.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace Review
Dynatrace is being used mostly as an application performance management tool right now. We use the Appmon tool. We are implementing Dynatrace currently. It addresses our need to look into connections between apps and diagnose any issues that may arise between the communication thereof. It also helps us diagnose issues such as too much garbage collection occurring or not enough memory on hardware, etc.
- Analysis of memory.
- Analysis of user actions.
- Can't use Windows servers for the main node.
- When implementing custom metrics, I don't want all of them. I want to select the ones I want.
February 05, 2020
A good tool, but at a price
Dynatrace is being used by one vertical within the IT organization. The vertical includes manufacturing, This is a new expansion to most of the teams but we are rolling this out to more of our company as we prove it's value to the organization as a whole. Feedback has been very good so far!
- Problem detection.
- Real user monitoring.
- Pricing is being outpaced by competitors.
- Legacy system support (AS400 Support).
February 05, 2020
Hitting it out of the park
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are still rolling it out to all departments. We have currently about 800 servers under agent, a couple of hundred database servers, as well as making inroads into the cloud spaces.
- Finding programming hacks.
- First tool that spans the mainframe and is distributed.
- Better documentation on use cases.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace is great!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dynatrace is being used by us to monitor performance across all applications. We are looking to continue to integrate it into our DevOps strategy.
- Monitoring.
- Dashboard.
- Pricing.
- Licensing.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace is recommended!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dynatrace is used by various application teams in the organization for various purposes including troubleshooting, bug fixes, and reducing MTTR.
- Automation.
- Cloud monitoring.
- App-level monitoring for GKP.
February 05, 2020
Full stack monitoring
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Its main purpose for us is monitoring full-stack applications.
- Easy to install.
- Very scalable.
- Session reply won't work for some 3rd party products.
- Two factor authentication for synthetic testing is not working.
February 05, 2020
One solution for all your APM needs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dynatrace is our current APM tool. It is used by our load team, analysis team, and monitoring team. We currently have 100's of microservices running on a host and with OneAgent, we were able to monitor all processes with a single click. Our analysis team relies on problem detection and reporting.
- Problem detection.
- Service flows.
- Robust dashboards.
- Custom service metrics.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace review
We are using it to monitor cloud and on-premises infrastructure, especially for integrations between ERP and sales systems, as well as logistics and procurement solutions.
- Log reading and analyzing.
- Integrations monitoring.
- Continue improving log reading capabilities.
- Improve dashboard options.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace for the win!
We are using Dynatrace to proactively detect issues, to definitively and quickly determine RCAs, and to drive system uptime.
- IA-driven automatic baselining.
- Log aggregation and analysis.
- Some screens and navigation are non-intuitive, which adds to the learning curve.
- The pricing structure is complex and makes it difficult to compare/justify with comparable offerings.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace Review
Dynatrace is currently being used across all of our environments to streamline and enhance software reliability and to ensure our operations are running efficiently and smoothly. It is used by all of our internal teams and platforms to mitigate any potential production level issues. It keeps teams operating at very high levels.
- Site reliability.
- Streamlines operations.
- Cost.
- Plugin support.
February 05, 2020
Great app monitoring tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Root cause.
- Synthetic monitoring.
- Maintenance mode needs improvements.
- Telling users when a problem is being troubleshooted.
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Dynatrace for modernizing the monitoring and visibility of our infrastructure as well as to provide us a better approach to deliver support to our customers.
- Set-up is very easy.
- Pricing could be better.
February 05, 2020
Recommending Dynatrace
Dynatrace is currently being implemented and used throughout our organization to monitor our processes as well as our infrastructure. Dynatrace has enabled us to have tremendous insight into our work systems and process flows. Dynatrace provides amazing application insight.
- Gives real-time stats on vital processes
- Monitors infrastructure systems metrics with great detail
- Allows many ways to customize the product to fir our needs
- Some of the monitoring communications could be better
- A few false positives on alerts
- Sometimes slow interface response
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace is easy to use and promotes productivity.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dynatrace currently is being used in all of engineering. Dynatrace makes monitoring infrastructure, services, and applications a breeze.
- Easy to use
- Promotes productivity
- Requires you to customize it with tagging to get best results.
February 05, 2020
Enhanced productivity and monitoring
We're utilizing Dynatrace for web and performance monitoring, both internally and externally. We utilize synthetic monitoring for various sites to monitor and alert on availability of user experienced actions, and also utilize standard HTTP monitoring for site uptime for a large number of internal and external websites that my team is responsible for supporting.
- Drill-down metrics
- Easy to use interface
- Requires training to successfully utilize
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have used Dynatrace to monitoring our infrastructure on AWS, and the application that is running on AWS. Dynatrace has been helping Smiles for about 5 years. After deployment in our infrastructure, it has been possible to anticipate problems with services and hosts.
- Alarms
- N/A
February 05, 2020
Easy to deploy and robust APM tool
Dynatrace is used as an enterprise-wide APM solution that provides a view into infrastructure health and application performance. It help us improve resiliency of the infrastructure and reduce mean time to resolve problems. We utilize Dynatrace for smart base-lining and alerting, and also integrate it with other enterprise tools. Dynatrace help us monitor user satisfaction, and we utilize dashboards to share information with different departments and units.
- Easy OneAgent installation
- Built-in AI that helps with root-cause analysis
- External metrics input
- Log ingestion
February 05, 2020
Dynatrace is the top solution
We partner with Dynatrace to offer its solutions and products to our customer base--they basically are ServiceNow customers. Dynatrace complements our portfolio.
- Easy to implement
- One agent
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- NA
February 05, 2020
Excellent mind reader of external customers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have been using this product for a long time and It really matters when you know how your own customer experience is with your customer-facing websites. It really does help to improve your own infrastructure.
- Helped the operations team find issues.
- Sends alerts on time.
- Being proactive in monitoring and catching up.
- I can not think of suggestions for improvement at this time.