We performed a comparison between Grafana and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana offers a more customizable and visually appealing experience with good integration and an open source nature, at a more moderate pricing model with a helpful community, making it the preferred solution. While VMware Tanzu Observability is praised for ease of deployment and integration with multiple solutions, it has concerns with its consumption-based billing model, high license costs, and difficulty in customizing dashboards.
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"We like the alert features."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"No issues with stability."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
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Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is ranked 33rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Applications is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Applications writes "Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas VMware Aria Operations for Applications is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, AppDynamics and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Grafana vs. VMware Aria Operations for Applications report.
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