We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a stable, reliable product."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"It is a stable solution."
"We like the alert features."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The formatting could be better."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 48th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor and Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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