We performed a comparison between Grafana and Splunk APM 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."The solution has good features."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The formatting could be better."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. Splunk APM report.
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