Tough Questions: Dynatrace

DISCLAIMER: All views and opinions are based off of individual experiences and are not reflective of anyone or anything other than myself.  The information stated below is has either been obtained from personal engagements or available via other publications.

If I did not work for such a great company, I may get called into the principals office for this one.  Dynatrace has taken a unique journey since its inception in 2007.  The customer list is over 6,000 and includes nine of the top ten retailers and banks (who is holding out?).  As of right now, Dynatrace is the market share leader when compared to the other two companies discussed in these articles.


The platform is comprised of Application Monitoring, User Experience Management, Synthetics, and Data Center RUM.

How does Ruxit fit into this equation?

A companies future is an important item to learn whenever making a large purchase.  I am personally working with a company who is now scrambling to find an alternative since the collapse of OpTier.  With Ruxit being introduced into the same APM market as Dynatrace Application Management the questions around internal competition often come up.  Companies should be confident on choosing the right solution, and that solutions future.

How come you do not have an analytics platform?

New Relic and AppDynamics have one.  Why is not there a Dynatrace Analytics?  With as much of a "me tooing"* going around in this industry it only makes sense that Dynatrace is also getting into the big data crunching spot that the other two vendors are stepping into.

*when a company releases a feature that companies like.  Then a competitor releases a similar feature.  AKA keeping up with the Jones'.

How is your platform integrated?

Since Dynatrace has agent, agentless, and synthetic platforms;correlation from these multiple data collection points will be a necessity for understanding the data collected.  Obviously there are integrations that exist today, but ensure that you understand how those connections work and what data is shared between the tools.

Final Rant

It has been a very fun and interesting journey working for Dynatrace.  Nearly everyday I have the pleasure of working alongside some of the most talented coworkers, partners and clients.  I started this blog because this company has shown me there is a better way.  It is our job as fellow performance nerds to constantly question and push for improvements regardless of where the opportunity may be.



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