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Splunk vs.

Dynatrace
Four paradigm shifts customers make
after Splunk migration to Dynatrace

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Splunk vs. Dynatrace: Four paradigm shifts customers make after Splunk migration to Dynatrace

What’s inside
INTRODUCTION

A modern observability approach to log management and analytics.............................. 3

PARADIGM ONE

Not all tasks are queries.................................................................................................... 5


Manual queries for additional data ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Dynatrace provides intelligent automation that adds context to logs .......................................................................... 6

Splunk must run queries constantly to know what’s happening .................................................................................... 7

PARADIGM TWO

AI provides comprehensive coverage and visibility.......................................................... 8


AI-based approach reveals root causes automatically.................................................................................................... 8

PARADIGM THREE

Significantly reduce total cost of ownership..................................................................... 9


Greater complexity leads to greater costs.......................................................................................................................... 9

Simplicity and automation mean lower TCO..................................................................................................................... 10

PARADIGM FOUR

Stop paying for unused data............................................................................................. 11


Dynatrace introduces answer-centric pricing.................................................................................................................. 11

CONCLUSION

Centralized log management gives way to unified observability................................... 12

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Splunk vs. Dynatrace: Four paradigm shifts customers make after Splunk migration to Dynatrace

INTRODUCTION

A modern observability approach


to log management and analytics
For more than a decade, Splunk has led in centralized log management. In recent years,
the company has expanded its reach into observability use cases through a series
of acquisitions. Meanwhile, Dynatrace™ has excelled as a leader in the complex world
of application performance monitoring and observability. In fact, Dynatrace has been
named a leader in application performance monitoring and observability for more than
a decade.

The observability market is very competitive. It’s becoming clear that vendors who use
automation and artificial intelligence are providing customers with compelling solutions
for new problems. In fact, recent research indicates that 83% of technology leaders say
AI has become mandatory to keep up with the dynamic nature of cloud environments.

Dynatrace has distinguished itself with its cloud-friendly observability approach based
on composite AI, recognized by leading analyst firms as the de facto standard for the
observability market. Composite AI — or hypermodal AI — includes predictive, causal and
generative AI for tasks such as forecasting, root-cause analysis, problem remediation,
and automation.

Dynatrace has invested in AI since 2015, with the introduction of the Davis™ AI engine.
The automation behind Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics is powered by the
Dynatrace data lakehouse, Grail™, launched in 2022. With its indexless, schemaless
design, Grail delivers 10 times faster query results than other solutions in the market.

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Splunk vs. Dynatrace: Four paradigm shifts customers make after Splunk migration to Dynatrace

Why a modern approach to unified observability is critical


As technology continues to evolve, the ability to unify observability signals across all
aspects of an IT environment is now critical to organizational success.

Organizations need unified observability of business events, user experience,


distributed traces, infrastructure, logs, applications and platforms in context of all their
dependencies. Moreover, this observability needs to be augmented, not hampered, by
the method teams use to access volumes of relevant observability data for both routine
operational and advanced analytics. Observability with advanced analytics enables teams
to identify performance, security, and other application risks before they affect users
and data.

Dynatrace is the established leader in the unified observability market. Centralized log
management vendors such as Splunk, have worked to enter the observability market
through mergers and acquisitions of third-party technologies, leaving gaps in coverage
and functionality.

As customers consider moving from Splunk for observability to a more modern, unified
observability approach, four paradigms emerge that result in better, more cost-effective
outcomes: streamlining querying, using AI for full coverage, reducing total cost of
ownership (TCO), and no longer paying for unused data.

For years, Dynatrace has infused its platform with AI-driven intelligence.
From its end-to-end topology mapping technology Smartscape™ to its
hypermodal AI engine Davis, Dynatrace unlocks business advantages in
context with automatic root cause analysis.

This whitepaper explores these paradigms in comparing Splunk


vs. Dynatrace for observability.

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Splunk vs. Dynatrace: Four paradigm shifts customers make after Splunk migration to Dynatrace

PARADIGM ONE

Not all tasks are queries


When using Splunk for observability, every task Dynatrace automatically maps dependencies to
is a query because observability data is siloed enable fast analysis and data reasoning across
from log data. all observability and log data. Dynatrace uses this

• If you’re building a dashboard, it’s a query. topology mapping with SmartScape alongside Davis
AI to achieve automatic root cause analysis that
• If you want to find metadata for a specific log, you
focuses automatically on business impact. Because
must run several queries to get host, namespace,
it’s all automatic, no additional queries are required.
and cloud data, for example.

• If you want to find a baseline of a service, it is Manual queries for additional data
a query. Splunk customers also need to perform manual
• If you want to understand performance anomalies queries to find all the metadata and context for every
against a baseline, it’s a query run every several log to deduce root cause based only on correlations.
seconds. Splunk provides no intelligence or association
Queries are a manual process, so it’s not uncommon technologies to link logs, traces, events, metrics, or
for customers to develop a large library of thousands environments together. As a result, Splunk users
of queries to manage and maintain. must rely on manual queries to provide additional
data for logs. This is a cumbersome, slow, and error-
This isn’t the case with Dynatrace. Customers’
prone process that results in blind spots.
query count will decrease by 60% to 70% given the
intelligence and automation built into the platform.

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