We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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: Dynatrace is preferred over Grafana due to its AI capabilities, real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities. It offers good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications, with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. While Grafana is praised for its customizable and visually appealing graphs and flexibility in integration with other tools, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"The User Sessions Query language has definitely been the most helpful with its key user actions and user session properties. Using those together, that has completely transformed how we're able to identify customers and their problems on our site. It has made a very big impact over the year."
"The User experience monitor is a real added value."
"Dynatrace has an auto-baseline and uses AI to monitor the performance of each API. The response time is related to the baseline."
"This solution has helped us to improve application performance and reduce issue-impact with faster resolutions."
"Dynatrace covers the important tiers and allows us to quickly find trends and root causes in all our critical application lifecycle steps"
"This solution is perfectly stable. The main feature with this solution is that you do not need to do a lot stuff. Everything is being done by the tool itself. Everything is in there for you. There is nothing much needed from your resources; it is all in there."
"We are able to see globally our end user response time tracing down to the user ID."
"It helps developers fix old and new problems, helps businesses to understand conversions, statistics, and service health."
"The solution has good features."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"It needs improvement with proprietary protocols for the DC RUM part."
"I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace."
"Adding people to alerts has not been very intuitive. That's really my only negative feedback."
"The next release I would like to see is especially with external API monitoring. Right now, everything goes into one bucket, but if it were split into which API is failing, that way we wouldn't have to drill down to find out where the failures are."
"It needs more dashboards like AppMon."
"Product reporting still needs improvement."
"Configuration could be simpler."
"I would like them to add serverless capabilities, because everyone is going there."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"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."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The solution should include online support."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Prometheus, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana report.
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