We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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: Dynatrace is preferred over Grafana due to its AI capabilities, real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities. It offers good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications, with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. While Grafana is praised for its customizable and visually appealing graphs and flexibility in integration with other tools, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"Dynatrace is capable of following all user actions across all monitored infrastructure, even to systems not monitored, but interconnected."
"It is an amazing tool for application root cause analysis and business function analytics"
"It gives more visibility into all the coding (the black screen). It gives a nice screen. You can see ups and downs. You can see where the traffic is getting impacted, more on the convergence side."
"Improves the ability to isolate issues and determine root cause with the same tool."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"I think the design is pretty scalable. It's pretty easy to add additional nodes if we need to. Also, it's easy to migrate changes from one environment to another."
"We had point solutions where we could see different elements of the stack, and Dynatrace ties everything together. Before, we could never get that full-stack monitoring. It also helps us get us the context of the customer experience. What's the business impact of those problems?"
"It simplifies a lot of the processes of performance tuning client systems before they go live."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"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."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The solution has good features."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"For an easy view of global and entity-specific configurations, a separate tile or pane aggregating these configurations should be implemented."
"I would like to see single pane monitoring."
"It needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically."
"The con of Dynatrace is that, at times, because it has so much information, it becomes difficult to see the root cause of your problem, and then you have to dig around to find the root cause."
"Better root cause detection and improve root cause categories. In some cases, the root cause points out only a clue of what has happened."
"When compared with other tools, the experience needs improvement. I would like them to build out the interactions and make them friendlier."
"The reporting could be better."
"Every time I want to see the PurePath, I have to launch the client. It would be helpful if they introduced this in the browser application."
"The formatting could be better."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"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."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Prometheus, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana report.
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