We performed a comparison between Grafana and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana is the preferred choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its flexibility, open source nature, and ability to cater to multiple use cases. It has a better UI dashboard, live monitoring, alerts, and heat maps. WhatsUp Gold is cost-effective and has good documentation, but it lacks real-time monitoring and configuration management. Users suggest that it needs to improve its release cadence to add new features and functionality more quickly. Overall, Grafana provides a better user-friendly experience and more advanced features.
"The solution can scale well."
"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."
"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."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"The interface needs some work."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and eG Enterprise, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Grafana vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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