Dynatrace vs CloudQA Synthetic Monitoring Tools Comparison
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Dynatrace – Synthetic Monitoring:
Short synopsis: Dynatrace is an Application Performance Management (APM) software that runs for on-premise and cloud applications. Dynatrace – Synthetic Monitoring is one of its performance analysis tools.
How does it work: Record and playback tool for creation of monitoring scenarios.
Standout features: Monitoring for multiple locations in a single execution.
Challenges: Basic record and playback tool to build monitoring scenarios.
Pros: Global coverage, rich dashboard and detailed reporting.
Cons: Doesn’t work on complex web applications like Single Page Application, no provision to edit a scenario after being created and high costs.
Bottomline: Dynatrace – Synthetic Monitoring tool is useful ONLY for very basic monitoring and can be very costly to operate.
CloudQA Synthetic Monitoring:
Short synopsis: CloudQA is a cloud based web testing and performance analysis platform. CloudQA Synthetic Monitoring is a synthetic monitoring tool by CloudQA.
How does it work: Record and playback tool for creation of monitoring scenarios.
Standout features: Powerful recorder and agility in management.
Challenges: There is no out of the box APM but CloudQA works well with 3rd party APM tools from Google (name of the tool) & NewRelic.
Pros: Very easy to setup and use. Works with even the most complex web applications and is cost effective.
Cons: Geographical monitoring from XX locations compared to YY offered by Dynatrace
Bottomline: CloudQA Synthetic Monitoring is the easiest and the most effective synthetic monitoring solution available in the market.
Side by side feature comparison:
| Category | Feature | Dynatrace – Synthetic Monitoring | CloudQA Synthetic Monitoring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creation | Recording Scenarios | Basic recording of user actions | Advanced recording of user actions with support for assertions and hovers |
| Monitoring | Browsers | Real browser support | Real browser support |
| Location Based Monitoring | Monitor multiple locations around the world Simultaneous monitoring of same scenarios across multiple regions | Monitor multiple locations around the world | |
| Complexities | Supports basic web applications | Monitor complex web applications like Single Page Application | |
| Maintenance | Editing Scenarios | Only addition of validation and editing CSS | Perform complex actions- Adding scripts, store variables, random variables, alerts, waits etc |
| 3rd Party Integrations | Out-of-the-box integrations with popular tools | Out-of-the-box integrations with popular tools | |
| Scheduling Frequency | Choice of 5, 10, and 15, 30 and 60 minute frequencies | Choice of 5, 10, and 15, 30 and 60 minute frequencies | |
| Reliability | False Positive Resistance | Based on deviation from historical baseline metric | Retrial of monitoring, automatic waits and robust CSS selectors |
| Reporting | Dashboard | Can create and share custom dashboard | Basic dashboard |
| Performance Metrics | Availability, uptime, full loaded time, network time, client time, server time, and resource timings. | Availability, uptime, full loaded time, network time, client time, server time, and resource timings. | |
| Performance Analysis | – Line graphs, pie charts and histograms based date and time series analysis of Load times for URLs, and User actions – Interactive graphs with user action and URL filters – Run trends for status on application glitches while monitoring a scenario – Drill-down for glitches with screenshots – Other graphs | – Line graphs and histograms based date and time series analysis of Load times for URLs, and User actions – Interactive graphs with user action and URL filters – Run trends for status on application glitches while monitoring a scenario – Drill-down for glitches with screenshots | |
| Alerts and Notification | Email, Dynatrace mobile app and custom integrations like Slack, PagerDuty and JIRA | SMS, email, and custom integrations like Slack, PagerDuty and JIRA | |
| Competitive Benchmarking | Using Apdex ratings | On request | |
| Other | Support (Basic Subscription) | – Product onboarding – Live chat – 8 Hours / 5 Working Days available | – Product onboarding – Dedicated Support Assistant – Live chat – 8 Hours / 5 Working Days available |
| Infrastructure | On premise and Cloud | On premise and Cloud | |
| Price | $ 0.35 per 25 runs | $ 0.14 per 25 runs |
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