We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications."
"We can see the customer's path from their computer to the backend systems."
"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring."
"It is a stable solution that helps address user issues well."
"The most valuable feature is that we can see how our end-users are interacting with our application across regions."
"The best feature of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that it lets you find errors in synthetic jobs ahead of the users. The solution shows you all front-end metrics. You can also see JavaScript errors and jQuery errors through AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring. You can also do a correlation between the front end and the backend, or from the user to the navigator, to the backend through the solution."
"We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"We like the alert features."
"AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine."
"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements that come into play on websites."
"I would like to see support for mobile testing and mobile monitoring."
"We would like to be able to easily use this solution to monitor our Java script based browsers, which are currently blocked by the security settings."
"They do not have robust documentation."
"I would like to have customizable dashboards to use when I am monitoring certain applications."
"If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
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AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring writes "End-to-end visibility, feature-rich, but the support could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability. See our AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Grafana report.
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