dynaTrace is equally capable in production and development. You can do "diffs" to compare one run of a transaction against another to see if changes have made the app better or worse -- and where. dynaTrace also integrates with Visual Studio Team System for Test, to facilitate comparing different configurations of the same application. Run results are saved to a central repository for shared access.

dynaTrace is an amazing product that helped me understand how my app worked in real-time. If you can afford it, you should be evaluating dynaTrace.

dynaTrace Continuous APM is an Application Performance Management solution that enables organisations to isolate and fix application performance and scalability issues before they affect production environments. Also, a highly significant differentiator is its ability to operate in the live environment without significant overhead, aiding developers in tracing the causes of problems without having to recreate a case. The costs and delays brought about by software performance difficulties can be a significant competitive disadvantage, particularly as applications are closer than ever to business processes. The dynaTrace solution is capable of serving SOA-based and virtualised IT environments in addition to client-server applications, and it integrates with many ALM and IT management tools to provide holistic visibility into application performance. Organisations can use this product to address performance issues during code development, and performance and load testing, as well as in production. The solution focuses on tracing individual transactions and collects highly granular data from a wide variety of sources to facilitate speedy resolution of issues, unlike many competing solutions which focus on aggregated metrics reporting. The vendor plans to release a toolkit to facilitate integration with broader IT environments, which in OVUM Butler Group’s view would address the limitation that currently this solution can only work for applications operating in Java or .NET environments.

Linux or Windows, Java or .Net, Open-Source or commercial application and data base server - you can find almost everything in today’s business applications. That makes the testability and diagnosability of such system extremely difficult. This is what Dynatrace wants to help you overcome.

TSS recently had a discussion with Randy Arseneau, Ted Feyler, and Kathy Harsanyi from DynaTrace, discussing their flagship product, which helps isolate performance problems in Java throughout the entire development cycle. This is a summary of the technology and its value proposition.

The market offers different profiling-, diagnosis- and monitoring tools, some of them differ strongly from others concerning the functions. We will introduce some of them in this article, discuss the differences and give you information for your choice.