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.
"The ability to check parameters for microservice applications is most valuable. It is important for me. I can manually create new business transactions for applications and individually monitor business transactions. I can also use a lot of extensions. It has a lot of extensions to monitor other third-party applications, such as NoSQL applications, memory cache applications, Kafka applications, and Couchbase applications. It is very useful. We are also using the end-user monitoring site to follow all end-user activities. It is important for us to check the errors on the customer site."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"Technical support is helpful."
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"The most valuable feature is the flow map."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The solution's user interface should be improved."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"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."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
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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