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.
"Reduces the amount of knowledge that is needed by applications consuming this data."
"The features that we find most valuable are automatic root cause detection, topology discovery, and session replay."
"It allows you to better utilize and focus your talent, and tell management that you are not only looking at problems, but how you can ultimately make the product better for the end user."
"We scaled from 300 agents to 800 agents in six months. There were no issues at the server level, which is pretty good."
"It is very easy to create customized dashboards."
"Real user monitoring is one of the best things in solution. The possibility to analyze any particular user session is wonderful."
"Dynatrace makes it so much easier to proactively solve problems before they become big headaches, and easily pinpoint the root cause of an issue."
"The dashboard gives us something to show managers and our business where the problems are. That's really been eye-opening for them. They can see, yes, this tool has been a good investment. They can see where the problems are and how we can take advantage of it for making those necessary corrections."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"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 valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"We like the alert features."
"If the user interface were made more intuitive then it would really benefit the product."
"DevOps plugin monitoring tools need improvement."
"So far, we have not achieved the benefit of preventing issues."
"I'd really like to see more dashboarding abilities. The ability to do workflows within dashboards, being able to start at a high level and click into it with custom dashboards. I think most of the time, we are creating our own custom dashboards, and I'd just like to see more ability with that."
"The one area that we get value out of now, where we would love to see additional features, is the Session Replay. The ability to see how one individual uses a particular feature is great. But what we'd really like to be able to see is how a large group of people uses a particular feature. I believe Dynatrace has some things on its roadmap to add to Session Replay that would allow us those kinds of insights as well."
"They seriously have to improve their Web UI dashboard configuration and SSL timeouts. Their Web UI dashboards are very slow."
"Another area for improvement is that I would like the alerting to be set up a little bit more easily. Currently, it takes a lot of work to add alerting, especially if you have a large environment, and I consider our environment to be quite large. The alerting takes a lot of administration."
"This solution could be improved with better compatibility with legacy applications."
"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."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The formatting could be better."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana report.
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