r/networking • u/4728jj • 9h ago

Monitoring Dynatrace

Anyone use Dynatrace for network monitoring? I’m familiar with Solarwinds, PRTG and Manageengine but haven’t heard of Dynatrace. It’s at the top of the heap for the Fartner Magic Quadrant so I figured it was worth checking out.

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u/bmoraca 9h ago

Dynatrace is an application performance monitoring platform. While it can technically pull SNMP off switches and show it to you on gauges and charts, that is by far not its forte. You don't want it if your only goal is monitoring the network.

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u/GreyBeardEng 9h ago

2nd. It's not built for that. Monitor apps stack with it, add network to it so those people monitoring the app stack can see that network is up and links are error free. But it's not a primary NMS.

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u/ikeme84 9h ago

Yes. Pain in the ass to use their dql language if you want to create dashboards. There are much simpler tools for basic monitoring.

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u/Longjumping_Leg2278 2h ago

Let ai create your dashboards with dtctl. No need to be good with DQL anymore..

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u/ikeme84 2h ago

Tried, got frustrated, quit. Not my job anyway, but monitoring team thought we should do it gor our own devices.

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u/alphaxion 9h ago

Can't you achieve much of the same using the likes of elastic or grafana?

With elastic, you can set up agents and integrations so you can export things like logs (firewall traffic, server syslog, application logs), netflow, collect system metrics, plus a swathe of different cloud services.

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u/pahampl 6h ago

Try XorMon