We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds Pingdom 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 has good stability."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"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."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"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."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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