Dynatrace vs. LiveAction

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynatrace
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
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.
$0
per synthetic request
LiveAction
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A
Pricing
DynatraceLiveAction
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DynatraceLiveAction
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DynatraceLiveAction
Features
DynatraceLiveAction
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Dynatrace
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Ratings
LiveAction
6.9
Ratings
17% below category average
Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Network capacity planning00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Network mapping00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
DynatraceLiveAction
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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-
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Usability
7.9
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Availability
8.2
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-
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Performance
7.3
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-
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Support Rating
8.2
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10.0
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In-Person Training
8.2
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-
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Online Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
7.9
(0 ratings)
-
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Configurability
7.3
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-
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Ease of integration
7.3
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-
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Product Scalability
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(0 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
DynatraceLiveAction
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.
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The product is best suited for performing assessments on your network infrastructure via data and voice over IP flows. Finding bandwidth hogs is also easy to do with the product (Similar to Plixer's Scrutinizer product), and permits point-and-click remediation of Quality of Service (QOS), layer2/3 transit problems, and security issues.
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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.
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  • Packet tracing and diagnostics.
  • The visual analytics in the dashboard were good.
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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.
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  • Cost is VERY high for what this product does, but it's worth it if you do not have all of the expertise to prioritize your network properly
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Likelihood to Renew
We have got tremendous support and response from the dynatrace support team as well as the larger community. We still have issues like the lack of role based administration, but we are told that it may be coming in a future release. The team is very supportive and has assisted us in several tough situations.
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Usability
Dynatrace is great to use once you understand how to use it correctly and get used to the layout of it. While I do not actively use it every day, whenever I do use it, I do have to get refamiliarized with it. However, once you have your dashboards setup correctly with the data that you want to see when you first login to Dynatrace, it's amazing.
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Reliability and Availability
Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
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Performance
We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
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Support Rating
I wish I could have given the ten points but based on my experience in past I am reducing by two points as the penalty. But I am sure that it will have improved in the past few months. They need some improvement on ticket handling. Overall I appreciate some of the support folks who responded quickly and also were ready to jump on the Webex and get the problem understood to fix it.
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Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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In-Person Training
We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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Online Training
The training was done on our time and with our system.
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Implementation Rating
Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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Alternatives Considered
Like I mentioned earlier, Dynatrace is a great tool but comes with a heavy price tag. On the other hand, Foglight offers a slightly lower level of expertise in application monitoring but fulfils almost all the requirements you would commonly have. The only major feature lacking in Foglight is the predictive monitoring feature. If you are an SME struggling with budgets, then predictive monitoring is something you can certainly live without.
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Compared to ExtraHop it lacked the network analytics that compares data from an L2 up. We were able to track down rogue devices. certificates, a DNS attack, etc. that would have been a little hard to do in LiveAction. On the flip side, compared to PRTG, LiveAction has many more features that PRTG is lacking. The reporting, actions and visual analytics alone were better.
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Scalability
Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
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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.
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  • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
  • Great reporting features for executives.
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