We performed a comparison between Grafana and Instana Dynamic APM 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 open source, flexible in integration, and has a strong community with helpful forums. While Instana has a user-friendly GUI and real-time data generation, it falls short in terms of integration and AI-based anomaly detection. Overall, Grafana is preferred for its wide range of features and scalability.
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"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 most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"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."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."
"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."
"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"
"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."
"The configuration of Instana Dynamic APM needs improvement because it requires quite a bit of work."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 23rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic Observability and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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