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.
"We can see each session, end-to-end, and discover issues."
"Dynatrace helps to build business and non-business dashboards and the appropriate alarming on mail groups."
"The PurePath feature enables you to see the path from click to database query."
"During the building of a system that is new, there are a lot of bugs. Being in the cloud it is very difficult, sometimes, to diagnose where the issues are. Dynatrace gives us that deep insight into errors."
"We're able to pinpoint web and mobile interface issues before they trigger a negative customer experience."
"It scales well. We are going to be able to use it for everything we need. "
"We have not had any stability issues with it at all. This has been the most stable solution that I have worked with."
"The PurePath stuff for deep dive analysis on problems. That is massive as far as having a benefit."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"It has good stability."
"The solution can scale well."
"We like the alert features."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"Adding people to alerts has not been very intuitive. That's really my only negative feedback."
"There is another challenge, which is in case of the Managed solution. In our old solution we could simply export the data as session data, and that would be imported and seen. Now, if we are using the Managed solution, then giving someone access to that solution is a challenge. We can handle it, but it's different than taking screenshots and saving that information the way we used to. The copy/paste features that were there in old application - because it was a fat app - were nice, compared to browser-based app, because you cannot really use those features anymore."
"It could improve its GUI interface. The GUI design is too crowded and the icons are small. Sometimes I end up clicking on the wrong button."
"Documentation is slightly in error as far as directory set ups and guidance. We came to our own solution for distributing the disk loads."
"We'd like it to be more user-friendly, which, in our case, might be a big ask as we have a fairly complex environment."
"Documentation could be improved. E.g., you don't know how to properly use Dynatrace because documentation is almost lacking behind the features being deployed."
"For AppMon, there is always room for improvement: charting, dashboarding, and user management."
"There should be more visibility for network performance monitoring. There should be more metrics for things like 5G and IoT. That would be the main thing because they've moved more to mobile performance rather than fixed networks."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"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."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"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."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
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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