Dynatrace vs Checkly

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

From $40 per month (indicative, Team plan by check runs)

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

Priced by check runs; browser checks cost more than API checks, and frequency multiplies the bill.

15-day trial.

Free plan with a monthly check-run allowance covering a small site.

Widely used

Dynatrace · since 2005

Widely used

Checkly · since 2018

• 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.

• One Playwright script serves as both an E2E test and a production monitor.
• Monitoring-as-code fits GitOps workflows and code review.
• Excellent developer experience and clear, published pricing.

• 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.

• Playwright-centric; teams on other frameworks get less benefit.
• Browser checks at high frequency across many locations get expensive.
• Not a full observability platform — no APM or log management.

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

Engineering teams already using Playwright who want production journeys monitored.