We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: According to user feedback, Grafana is the preferred option when compared to AppDynamics due to its open source features, customization abilities, and visually-pleasing graphs. It also boasts flexibility in integration with various tools and datasets. While AppDynamics has more features, Grafana is seen as more adaptable and user-friendly with moderate pricing and flexible licensing.
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"If it can be able to intelligently provide all the things we need to look at, from a data point of view, that would be very useful."
"Installation and configuration can be very tough. An average user without specialized knowledge can't do this. You need to have DevOps and QA teams handle it. During installation, a lot of customers get stuck trying to track the database or the API part, and they have to contact customer support."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ITRS Geneos, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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