Top 3 reasons people choose Dynatrace as a Splunk alternative
1
The broadest depth and widest scope
Advanced observability in context, so you get the complete picture of every app, every user, across every cloud, down to code-level, traces, metrics, logs, and metadata.
2
Smarter with AI-Assist
Davis, the Dynatrace AI-assistant, provides real-time answers and actions into root cause, behavioral intelligence, and business impact.
3
Simpler and easier
Automatic deployment, configuration, thresholds, dashboards, upgrades. Dynatrace was designed to make it easy for all BizDevOps teams to collaborate through a single source of truth.
Compare Dynatrace and Splunk
Dynatrace
Splunk
Advanced observability
Dynatrace
Beyond 3 pillars of metrics, traces and logs with user experience data, auto instrumentation, and designed to automatically adjust for dynamic workloads across every cloud platform, containers, microservices and Kubernetes
Splunk
Cannot auto-discover and auto-adjust as your tech stack changes. No unified platform for full stack observability, lots of bolt-on, siloed tools. No automatically built topology map to uncover application and infrastructure dependencies
Beyond 3 pillars of metrics, traces and logs with user experience data, auto instrumentation, and designed to automatically adjust for dynamic workloads across every cloud platform, containers, microservices and Kubernetes
Cannot auto-discover and auto-adjust as your tech stack changes. No unified platform for full stack observability, lots of bolt-on, siloed tools. No automatically built topology map to uncover application and infrastructure dependencies
Manual dependency connections, manual configuration and manual troubleshooting wastes time and resources
AI-Assistance
Dynatrace
Davis, AI-assistance, continually learns so there are no wasted resources even as environment changes. Solves precise root cause automatically, prioritized by business impact – acting as a force multiplier for your teams and enabling you to focus on what matters without wasting time
Splunk
Correlation-based data engine, with no root cause and the inability to address the "unknown unknowns" means wasting time and resources to comb through the data and manually find issues and their causes
Davis, AI-assistance, continually learns so there are no wasted resources even as environment changes. Solves precise root cause automatically, prioritized by business impact – acting as a force multiplier for your teams and enabling you to focus on what matters without wasting time
Correlation-based data engine, with no root cause and the inability to address the "unknown unknowns" means wasting time and resources to comb through the data and manually find issues and their causes
Cross-team Collaboration
Dynatrace
All-in-one platform provides a single source of truth across APM, infrastructure monitoring, digital experience, and business analytics – breaks down silos and enables easier collaboration across Biz/Dev/Ops teams
Splunk
Siloed tools that make up their observability suite, means your teams are not on the same page, and you have to spend time and resources to stitch disparate tools to get anything done
All-in-one platform provides a single source of truth across APM, infrastructure monitoring, digital experience, and business analytics – breaks down silos and enables easier collaboration across Biz/Dev/Ops teams
Siloed tools that make up their observability suite, means your teams are not on the same page, and you have to spend time and resources to stitch disparate tools to get anything done
Omni-channel User Experience & Business Analytics
Dynatrace
Single data model across every digital channel that automatically ties together full-stack performance, user experience and business metrics, creating an outside-in perspective for better business outcomes. Shared business context empowers IT and business teams to prioritize and take the initiative to optimize and fix issues before they impact users
Splunk
Siloed tools across web and mobile channels, with no linkages to business metrics. You have to burn resources and time to bridge the silos between digital channels and manually tie to biz impact and fix issues
Single data model across every digital channel that automatically ties together full-stack performance, user experience and business metrics, creating an outside-in perspective for better business outcomes. Shared business context empowers IT and business teams to prioritize and take the initiative to optimize and fix issues before they impact users
Siloed tools across web and mobile channels, with no linkages to business metrics. You have to burn resources and time to bridge the silos between digital channels and manually tie to biz impact and fix issues
Positioned furthest for Vision and highest in Execution
2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability
Dynatrace has been named a Leader among products in Application Performance Management (APM). These user ratings reflect the advantage of Dynatrace’s all-in-one-platform, which was made for IT, DevOps, and digital experience use cases, and built on a unified data model to enable increased automation and intelligence.
While most of the big vendors have spent their time trying to patch and upgrade their way to the needs of today, Dynatrace went back to the drawing board and created something special for today’s needs.”
Larry Roberts, Senior Systems Administrator, SRE, Architect - Gordon Food Service
A gamechanger in monitoring and operations. The unique approach to provide full-stack visibility, not only focusing on one aspect but covering everything that is of interest for a modern cloud operation, driven by a DevOps culture. The scale and automation at which Dynatrace can be applied is unmatched.”
Reinhard Weber, Senior Product Manager - SAP CX
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2023 Gartner®️ Critical Capabilities for APM and Observability