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.
"Being able to install it on-prem and monitor our on-prem infrastructure is important for us... Most of our infrastructure is on-prem. We have highly scalable systems and AppDynamics will help us monitor our load on-prem. Our systems range from simple to the most complex and it gives us the visibility across transactions, in one dashboard."
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"It is a stable solution."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"Despite dozens of deployments across hundreds of applications- we have yet to see a case where AD is negatively impacting application execution or functionality."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable solution."
"It has good stability."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The solution can scale well."
"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."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The formatting could be better."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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