We performed a comparison between Grafana and InfoVista 5View NetFlow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"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."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution has good features."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
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Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 63rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Grafana is rated 8.0, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of InfoVista 5View NetFlow writes "Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Catchpoint.
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