Stellar APM
November 27, 2018
Stellar APM
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Dynatrace
We used Dynatrace as our main monitoring software solution for several web applications - varying from Laravel to WordPress - mostly in the PHP environment.
- 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.
- Dynatrace is expensive. They have a pay-as-you-go option for startups and small companies - but monitoring more than one application can easily have you metered at three figures a month.
- Dynatrace's learning curve could be considered steep if you want to truly create an extensible & customizable monitoring environment for your web-apps.
- We had a great positive ROI with Dynatrace in being able to prevent some fiascos before they would occur - saving us money during potential downtime.