It was love at first sight for me, the first time I saw Dynatrace and the ease of deployment, compared to tools I worked with before e.g. Vantage, DCRUM, etc.
I think the real kicker for me though was how easy it was to upgrade not only agents but the Managed Cluster nodes! In AppMon, that was probably the biggest gripe with clients and my team: upgrades, and the licensing around it, was painful if you didn’t follow the steps to the tee.
The latest WOW factor was when I realized that the Image tile is available for dashboards (in SaaS, for now at least)
I’m so surprised on how Dynatrace has evolved. Coming from a background of AppMon, I remember the first time deploying OneAgent at scale and how fast I can get data.
Not only that but to use Dynatrace to give answers to why a process, service is experiencing trouble with context!
As a fan of automation and making development easier there isn’t a better fit!
There are lot of things in Dynatrace to talk about and love for. Dynatrace is the only tool I have learnt so far and feels like I don’t need to learn other tools after seeing what Dynatrace can do. I can concentrate on learning actual application’s underlying technology. One good thing about Dynatrace is that it is very easy to install and the analysis to gives is fast and accurate. This saves lot of dollars to our customers in fact in millions every year.
Ability to build charts, create metrics, Ingest logs and ability to view the traces of each request (PurePath) are the features that no other tool can match and replace Dynatrace with. It is one stop solution for Observability needs in one’s infrastructure. Not to forget real user monitoring as well. List simply goes on and on.
Yes for me the big change (I used AppMon just before switching to One agent) and one of the big change is the facility and ability to built the instrumentation easier with the autodiscovery (with only one simple agent)…
Also we are now using a full web version instead of desktop version, so the collaboration with teams is now very easy and quit, with a simple link sharing we can have the same view with the others to make troubleshooting.
Also, the introduction of the API is a big enhancement, to retrieve data, to connect with other thirds party, to ingest data… VERY BIG ACHIEVMENT.
Till now some other things are missing, but the most one that can help me a lot (And much other people I guess) is to retrieve the old option from (AppMon / DCRUM) which i duplicate any configuration and edit existing configuration in HTML OR TEXT format.
Dynatrace means in simple word life become easy to find any RCA, monitor any complex arch, to understand any architecture at a glance…
Every month adding new features which make Dynatrace becomes more powerfull day by day… sometime I feel what would be the next change in terms of the cLOUD, OCP, K8S which makes me more excited.
Thank you for your feedback! “Sharing is caring” and Dynatrace knows how important teamwork is. 😉
About an idea “to retrieve the old option from (AppMon / DCRUM) which you can duplicate any configuration and edit the existing configuration in HTML OR TEXT format.” recommend you to submit Product Idea :light_bulb:
These days we have so much data that simplifying complicated processes is a must. And the world needs software to work perfectly like never before. Hope that with every new release you will be even more excited. :star_struck:
Thank you for your feedback, @VenkataSainath!
It’s great to hear from an experienced, hailing from an APM background :top_arrow: that you see so much value in Dynatrace. :oneagent:
Thanks for the cool initiative that you brought it here to the community. And its just a WOW moment for me after seeing such huge responses! Giving away each kudo point from myside to every individual participated here. :blush:
I wasn’t much acquainted with Appmon though with an experience of various APM tools, I could see lot better options and more visibility in Dynatrace. First of all thanks to have no manual reports. Analysis and reports are some regular tasks for monitoring people in calculations and forecast. With APIs and Dashboards the reporting work gets simple every time.
Much more enhancements to talk about;
ruxit, slos, maintenance, request attributes, rca, web vitals, not to forget Dashboard powerups and much more…
However, the limitation on settings/configurations in Dynatrace always leaves a confusion. One such experience is; Host got decomm and agent removed from host. but detection rules for the decomm host are still get calculated in Dynatrace, so every time when there is a removal OneAgent, one should disable all the monitoring settings for that host so that limit gets freed/reduced and you can create new rules/settings again. This situation happened to me for Custom events for Alerting in Anomaly detection. Hope we will get possible enhancements in this too in future.
Indeed, the scale of feedback is fantastic! Happy to see the group of inspiring answers keeps on growing, especially of the ones like yours - thank you Rajesh for your insights 💡 Hopefully incoming constant improvements of the Dynatrace will make you stay with us for good and raise your satisfaction level!
For me the surprise was Monitoring As Code (monaco) and the wide range of APIs that make Dynatrace easily configurable and manageable in an automated way --> time saving,
human error avoidance
For me the eureka moment was seeing how easy it is to turn information that is just a data point in another application into an interactive graph in Dynatrace.
But the most fun for me has been hearing those Ah-ha moments from our application support teams. Every demo I have done has had at least one moment were someone sees some bit of their application that they either didn’t have a way to expose before or that they used custom scripts to get similar results. The ability to translate that to their dashboard or into an actionable alert has been critical for getting those teams to embrace a new tool.
My big surprises with Dynatrace was the User Session Queries Language (USQL). Wow… I see we were into the next generation of user and business analytics.
for dashboards (in SaaS, for now at least)
Thanks for the cool initiative that you brought it here to the community. And its just a WOW moment for me after seeing such huge responses! Giving away each kudo point from myside to every individual participated here. :blush:
and much more…