Complete business visibility across any environment and any stack
Understand the business impact of every performance problem
- Splunk is also OpenTelemetry native, ensuring complete data control and avoiding vendor lock-in./li>
- Splunk indexes and ingests most human-readable files, enabling log correlation, fast querying, and troubleshooting.
Dynatrace’s vendor lock-in
- Dynatrace’s OneAgent auto instrumentation’s proprietary design and high memory use complicate deployment.
- Dynatrace’s OpenTelemetry capabilities translate into limited enterprise support and platform integration.
Better control of your cost
Splunk’s value with predictable billing
- Splunk offers flexible, predictable billing, so you only pay for what you need without unexpected overages.
- With pooled pricing and a broader platform, Splunk’s industry-standard units help forecast spending and deliver value.
Dynatrace’s complex forecasting
- Dynatrace’s pricing can appear lower thanks to their Foundation & Discovery Mode agent, but in reality, this Agent does not offer anywhere near the functionality that you need for your business critical apps.
- Dynatrace pricing makes forecasting difficult, forcing customers to monitor fewer workloads and complicating management and troubleshooting.
A trusted leader in both Security and Observability
Detect and respond faster with Splunk's unified data platform
- Splunk offers a robust platform to collect, filter, transform, and analyze security and observability data at scale.
- Splunk Observability offers application vulnerability scanning with business risk scoring, and integrates with Splunk’s leading security solutions.
Dynatrace’s limited security capabilities
- Dynatrace uses legacy tools to identify code vulnerabilities and monitors logs and forensics for exploitation attempts.
- Dynatrace’s Grail dashboards show a limited security view, showing only identified, attacked, and remediated vulnerabilities.
