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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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Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Dynatrace in the organization and my area in particular by having it monitor our clusters. The overall scope of our use case is only for monitoring our clusters, but also all of our infrastructure devices to ensure there is nothing wrong going on with them during our daily operations.

Pros

  • Dashboards
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Analytics
  • Performance Predictions

Cons

  • Ease of use for newcomers

Return on Investment

  • Helped us see our infrastructure performance in real-time

Usability

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Something becomes truly beneficial when you understand its value and know how to use it effectively

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Proactive monitoring for business transaction that able to monitor upstream and downstream business transactions that impacting customer transactions

Consolidate noisy alerts and able to determine the actual root cause and impact.

Easy to navigate dashboard that provide pure paths and service flow modelling of the entire business transactions and engage the right support group to manage the incident mgmt promptly.

Pros

  • Automate Service to Service Modelling and Transactions
  • Proactive Application service monitoring to derive the impacted transactions
  • Log Monitoring that able to correlate with the Alerts.

Cons

  • Require Technical Skills and Understanding of the Application Services Flow
  • Developer requires to incorporate the monitoring in place for before Operation able to understand the error been trigger.

Return on Investment

  • Improve deployment time and incident when moving new features or capabilities
  • Quick Root Cause Analysis and provide all the require information to troubleshoot and provide resolutions

Usability

Alternatives Considered

New Relic, AppDynamics and Datadog

Other Software Used

BMC Helix Client Management, BMC Helix Discovery, Splunk Enterprise

Dynatrace a handy swiss-knife in your tool kit

Verified User
Team Lead in Quality Assurance (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to fine tune the new features in lower environments before pushing to Production. It also helps in monitoring apps performance in Production and get alerts when not in good shape

Pros

  • Ability to drill down service calls
  • Trend report on a services performance over time
  • Ability to share the analysis reports for team's further analysis

Cons

  • Navigation through the dashboard has a painful learning curve
  • Data retention is limited to 2~3 weeks

Return on Investment

  • Overview of the entire tech echo system of your enterprise applicaiton
  • Purepaths provide ability to drill down through different app layers to find the actual cause of degradation.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

New Relic and Catchpoint WebPageTest

Other Software Used

Catchpoint, Stoplight Studio

Tracing the heck out of it!(no pun intended)

Incentivized
Shashwat Pandey
Project Engineer in Information Technology at WIPRO (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dynatrace is used to monitor the health and other metrics of the oracle servers and other servers that are added in the UI. UI is quite nice and its easy to look for metric graphs and generate graphs according to requirement. Currently they have automated every process via github and jenkins and its better than before.

Pros

  • Metrics addition to the UI.
  • Graphs and all generation in the UI.
  • Alerting mechanism also work like a charm.

Cons

  • UI can be a little more user-friendly from non-tech perspective.
  • Alerting mechanism needs to be more seamless.
  • Performance issues with some versions which leads to lots of incidents.

Most Important Features

  • Alerting on the basis of threshold of a metric
  • Graphs and visual output in the UI.
  • Easy monitoring the health of the servers.

Return on Investment

  • Monitoring servers is very necessary for production and its good at that.
  • Alerting based on threshold also helps for prod servers.
  • The flexibility of switching from upper version to lower version is seamless.

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise

Other Software Used

Splunk Enterprise, Eclipse, Oracle Java SE

Fullstack visibility

Incentivized
ryan kim
Software Performance Solutions Lead in Professional Services at avodaq (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Application Monitoring
  • Real User Monitoring

Cons

  • Network Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting

Return on Investment

  • Quick fault isolation
  • Increased communication

Alternatives Considered

AppDynamics

Other Software Used

Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AppDynamics

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