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."The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"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."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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, New Relic and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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