We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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: Grafana stands out due to its open-source nature, flexibility in integration, and visually appealing graphs. SolarWinds falls short in terms of stability, flexibility, ease of use, and pricing, although it offers valuable monitoring capabilities. Grafana's customer service and pricing are positively reviewed. Overall, Grafana is user-friendly and provides a positive return on investment, making it the preferred solution.
"The solution has good features."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It has good stability."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"The solution can be deployed quickly."
"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
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Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and BMC TrueSight Operations Management. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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