Top Dynatrace Alternatives and Competitors
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The Dynatrace platform unifies observability, business, and security data at a massive scale (Grail) with continually updated topology and dependency mapping (Smartscape) to capture and retain full-stack data context. It leverages hypermodal AI (Davis), combining predictive AI to anticipate future behaviors, causal AI to deliver precise answers and intelligent automation, and generative AI to automatically provide recommendations, create suggested workflows or dashboards, and let people use natural language to explore, solve, and complete tasks.
Common Features
Transaction Request Performance | Application Request Tracing | Application Logging | Error Reporting | Real User Monitoring | Code Performance Monitoring | Dependency Tracking | Server Monitoring | Application Metric Reporting | Scalability | Application Discovery | Automated Diagnostics | Domain-Centric AI/ML | Synthetic Monitoring (RUM) | Non-Commodity Operating Systems | Domain-Agnostic AI/ML | Enterprise Cloud Platform Support | Cloud/On-Prem/Hybrid Deployment
8.9
Composite
Score
+95
Emotional
Footprint
111
Reviews
Best Alternatives and Competitors to Dynatrace
Compare how Dynatrace stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Azure Monitor
8.9
Composite
Score
+94
Emotional
Footprint
295
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Microsoft Azure Monitor is:
Better at Integrating
Easier to Customize
Easier to Use
Less Transparent
Less Caring
Worse at Support
Collect, analyse and act on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. Azure Monitor helps you maximise performance and availability of your applications and proactively identify problems in seconds.

Cisco Systems
Splunk AppDynamics
8.7
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
107
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Splunk AppDynamics is:
Better at Integrating
Less Transparent
Less Caring
Worse at Support
Less Inspiring
Less Innovative
Optimize hybrid and on-prem application performance with full-stack observability linked to business performance.

New Relic
New Relic
8.6
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
89
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, New Relic is:
Less Transparent
Less Caring
Worse at Support
Less Respectful
Less Efficient
Less Inspiring
New Relic’s SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring helps you build, deploy, and maintain great web software.
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Datadog
Datadog
8.3
Composite
Score
+85
Emotional
Footprint
45
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Datadog is:
Less Transparent
Less Caring
Less Innovative
Less Inspiring
Less Efficient
Less Reliable
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
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Splunk
Splunk APM
8.3
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
69
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Splunk APM is:
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
Less Caring
Worse at Support
Harder to Implement
Less Innovative
Splunk ITSI provides a view of the high-level health and performance of applications and services. It also lets you dive deeper in investigations to helps predict outages and find the root cause of a problem faster. With machine learning capabilities, you can detect patterns to help baseline and automatically adapt behaviors for better monitoring and incident prediction.

BMC
Stackify Retrace
8.2
Composite
Score
+90
Emotional
Footprint
79
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Stackify Retrace is:
Less Inspiring
Less Caring
Less Innovative
Less Transparent
Less Respectful
Less Reliable
Get code-level tracing, squash bugs and continuously observe and improve your application’s user experience from dev to production with Retrace full lifecycle APM.

IBM
Instana
8.2
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
48
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Instana is:
Worse at Training
Less Transparent
Less Respectful
Less Efficient
Less Inspiring
Less Caring
Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.
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OpenText Corporation
OpenText APM
7.7
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
56
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, OpenText APM is:
Worse at Training
Worse at Support
Less Innovative
Less Inspiring
Less Caring
Harder to Customize
OpenText™ (formerly Micro Focus APM) Application Performance Management (APM) Solutions allow you to isolate problems real-time for all of your applications whether on-premise, cloud, or mobile. OpenText APM Solutions are also available with a flexible delivery model to best fit your needs. Choose from any combination of on-premise, SaaS, or hybrid to suit your existing platform and business model.

eG Innovations
eG Enterprise
7.4
Composite
Score
+92
Emotional
Footprint
36
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, eG Enterprise is:
Worse at Training
Harder to Customize
Less Inspiring
Less Reliable
Harder to Use
Less Innovative
eG Enterprise is a total performance management solution that provides automated monitoring, diagnosis, and reporting to troubleshoot application slowdowns, user experience issues, network outages, virtualization bottlenecks, server failures, storage hotspots, and more. eG Enterprise uses a combination of agent-based and agentless approach to monitor the health and performance of the entire IT infrastructure from application code to bare metal across physical, virtual and cloud, and hybrid IT environments.

Broadcom
Broadcom DX APM
7.2
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
34
Reviews
Reviews Say
Compared to Dynatrace, Broadcom DX APM is:
Less Transparent
Less Caring
Less Inspiring
Harder to Implement
Less Efficient
Harder to Customize
Improve app performance and deliver flawless user experiences with unmatched insight and intelligence.
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