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.
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"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 features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"The SAP monitoring element is very helpful."
"AppDynamics' most valuable feature is Business iQ, which is based on analytics."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"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."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
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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