Dynatrace vs Better Stack

From $0.04 per hour per 8 GiB host (full-stack, indicative)

From $29 per month (indicative)

Consumption-based pricing across hosts, synthetic requests, RUM sessions and log volume. Enterprise contracts are large.

Substantially cheaper than assembling Pingdom, PagerDuty and Statuspage separately.

15-day trial.

Free plan with 10 monitors at 3-minute intervals and a status page.

Widely used

Dynatrace · since 2005

Established

Better Stack · since 2021

• Automatic discovery and dependency mapping removes most manual instrumentation work.
• Davis root-cause analysis genuinely reduces alert noise in complex estates.
• Covers mainframe and SAP alongside cloud-native workloads.

• Replaces three separate subscriptions with one at a lower total cost.
• Excellent status pages and incident communication out of the box.
• Fast check intervals even on modest plans.

• Expensive, with consumption pricing that is hard to forecast.
• Heavy platform aimed at organisations with a dedicated operations function.
• Overkill for a straightforward web application.

• Browser-based transaction monitoring is limited compared to Checkly or Datadog.
• Log management is capable but not a full observability platform.
• Younger vendor than the incumbents.

Large enterprises with complex hybrid estates and a dedicated SRE or operations team.

Small and mid-sized teams consolidating uptime, on-call and status pages.