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.
"It is easy to gain visibility into complex environments with AppDynamics. It has the ability to combine operation information of the environment and business information with strong business IQ support."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"After a major incident, root cause analysis is conducted and, most of the time, we understand what caused the incident and how it can be prevented from happening again."
"It is a stable solution."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"Has helped us to increase customer acquisitions and reduce revenue leakage."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"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 excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"The formatting could be better."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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 ITRS Geneos, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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