Dynatrace goes head-to-head with Cisco AppDynamics and New Relic
Dynatrace vs. Cisco AppDynamics vs. New Relic
What makes for a great APM (application performance management) solution?
Is it an ability to scale with hybrid cloud environments without missing a beat?
Or is it built-in AI?
At first glance it can be difficult to distinguish one APM vendor from another, but as soon as you scratch the surface, you quickly see there is only one leader.
If you want to take the fast lane, get hands on in under 5 minutes with the Dynatrace free trial. Let us show you how we stack up.
Enterprise unified monitoring
| Dynatrace | Cisco AppDynamics | New Relic | |
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| Full-stack monitoring in a single solution Users, applications, cloud and infrastructure including process, network metrics, and log analytics |
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| User experience analytics Individual session visibility, web and mobile applications, all digital touchpoints |
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| 100% technology coverage Cloud-native, enterprise technologies, and packaged apps |
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| Built for DevOps & continuous delivery processes Dynatrace seamlessly integrates with your DevOps tools |
AI-powered analytics & embedded expertise
| Dynatrace | Cisco AppDynamics | New Relic | |
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| Self-learning AI Machine learning continuously and automatically understands "normal" behavior for your specific system |
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| Real-time discovery and visualisation of topologies enterprise-wide Automatic topology discovery of entire stack—every component, every dependency, every technology |
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| Orchestration layer integration and automated problem remediation Open APIs and out-of-the-box integration with orchestration layer tools |
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| AI-powered VoiceOps and ChatOps Interact with Davis via Alexa or chat via Slack |
Built for cloud-native environments
| Dynatrace | Cisco AppDynamics | New Relic | |
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| Full AWS and Azure integration into AI causation engine Automatically locates problem inflicting components and identifies root causes while eliminating alert spam |
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| Native PaaS support for Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, and more Native support for Platform as a service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) components |
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| Full stack monitoring of Docker containers and containerized applications Auto-discovers and monitors containers without touching images |
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| AI-powered monitoring of IoT and Serverless functions AI automates analysis—proactively identifying anomalies and pinpointing underlying root causes |
Fully automated web-scale monitoring
| Dynatrace | Cisco AppDynamics | New Relic | |
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| Single agent deployment One single agent per host monitors everything—out of the box |
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| SaaS and On-premises Hybrid deployment packages, and architectural high availability |
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| Scalability to 100,000+ hosts Dynatrace is built from the ground up to monitor hyperscale environments |
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| Elastic pricing models Consumption based, annual plans, and/or perpetual licenses |
Raymond James chooses Dynatrace over AppDynamics
"Before buying Dynatrace we had very little visibility into our applications. The factor that makes it difficult is the complexity of the heterogeneous environment. You also have external influences. You need a system to be able to actually see the whole ecosystem and see where the performance problems are. Customer experience is key. The minute the user satisfaction goes down it's a call to action. We jump on problems before the first call comes in."
Jeff Palmiero, APM Manager at Raymond James
Monitoring redefined - Every user, every app, everywhere
AI-powered
A single Dynatrace OneAgent per host gathers all performance data. Smartscape creates a unified causation model as core of the AI-powered analytics engine.
- Dynamic blueprint of your ecosystem
- Auto discovery of application topology, deployments and environment changes
- AI understands dependencies and causation throughout your entire stack
- Auto baselining and AI-powered anomaly detection make configurations obsolete
- Performance issues are automatically traced back to the underlying root causes
- Multidimensional pattern recognition enables auto remediation of recurring issues
Full stack
Dynatrace uses AI capabilities to simply monitor performance and interpret information of all ecosystem components and their impact on customer experience.
- Business metrics
- Real user experience
- Synthetic monitoring
- Mobile apps
- Applications and Databases
- Containers
- Processes, logs and network
- VMs and servers
- Cloud and infrastructure
Automated
Dynatrace was built for automation and web-scale application ecosystems.
- Scales up to 100,000+ hosts
- Architectural high availability built in for managed on-premises or SaaS deployments
- Full integration of cloud native technologies in hyper elastic environments
- Containerized application monitoring without modifying Docker images
- IoT monitoring for smart sensors and devices, gateways and hyper scale applications
- Powerful APIs for seamless integration into enterprise orchestration layers
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