5 Reasons why do Engineers Choose
Middleware over Dynatrace?
1. AI-based advisor provides useful insights and recommendations
- AI-driven recommendations for logs/errors with the root cause and solution details.
- Customized alerts based on log data for proactive monitoring of critical issues.
2. Cost-effective, no hidden charges and best value
- Default retention, queries, alerts, AIOps, dashboards, and free storage in every plan.
- Maximize investment with 5x value, 60% lower cost than Dynatrace. No hidden fees, overage penalties, or complications.
3. Easy setup with single script installation
- Get 100% logs, traces, and events easily with a single script installation.
- Simplify collaboration with DevOps and Engineers using a single source of truth for deployment and configuration.
4. Powerful monitoring tools in a single place
- Unified access: logs, infrastructure, serverless, Kubernetes, DB, and synthetic monitoring.
- Comprehensive app and user insights across clouds: code, traces, metrics, logs, metadata.
5. Unified view
- Get all metrics, logs, traces, and events in a unified timeline to easily correlate data for faster troubleshooting.
- Correlation reveals system behavior, identifies root causes, and improves problem resolution.
Comparison
Supports effective server and resource management. Paired with service mesh, the load balancer handles traffic across networks.
| Unique value proposition | Middleware | Dynatrace |
|---|---|---|
| Actual unified view (with correlations) | ||
| Installation process | Single step | Lengthy step |
| Cost-effective pricing (no extras cost at peak and downtime) | 5x less | Costly |
| AI-based recommendation | ||
| Data retention | 180 days | Additional $0.20/GiB each month.* |
| All features(APM, infra monitoring, RUM, etc) access in every plan | ||
| Data storage on your servers / on-premise | ||
| Unlimited free containers per host | ||
| Custom development and custom log monitoring | ||
| Technical support | ||
| Ability to customized alert to make it less noisy and pre-configured auto alerts | ||
| Free Synthetic checks upto 20K | ||
| Per host price for infrastructure and APM Monitoring |
Our customers tell the best stories
We migrated from Datadog to Middleware because we absolutely love their unified view. It's such a simple but incredibly useful tool. This among other features made it a no brainer for us to migrate. We monitor our logs, metrics, and traces at a very affordable cost.
Cliff, President and Founder at Puresend
We use Middleware.io for monitoring our cloud infrastructure. It is extremely easy to integrate and provides a comprehensive view of your cloud environment with a very affordable price.
Artem Harutyunyan, Co-Founder at Bardeen.ai
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Middleware offers log monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and APM services; all features are free for a lifetime. You can use Middleware for free forever with all features for monitoring up to 2 machines.
Dynatrace charges based on hour with limited data processing limits, and data processed beyond the threshold is chargeable. Middleware charges based on number of machines and number of events (in log monitoring only), which makes us a better Dynatrace alternative in terms of pricing.
Yes. We have multiple products, and you can choose any or all of them. You will only be charged for the products to which you have subscribed.
We offer a solution where you can save your log in your data storage, which keeps your cost low when you have a high log volume. To know more about it, please book a demo with our Product export.