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 AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"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."
"I think the performance and interface are the most important features."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"I find troubleshooting is quicker because we can drill down into the end points and see which endpoints are getting critical. Visibility-wise, the micro details are easy to find."
"This is a stable product and we definitely plan to continue using it in the future."
"The solution can scale well."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"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."
"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."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"This solution is expensive."
"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"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."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
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 ThousandEyes, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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