We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds AppOptics 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."It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The solution has good features."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"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 product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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