We performed a comparison between Grafana and WhatsUp Gold 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 is the preferred choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its flexibility, open source nature, and ability to cater to multiple use cases. It has a better UI dashboard, live monitoring, alerts, and heat maps. WhatsUp Gold is cost-effective and has good documentation, but it lacks real-time monitoring and configuration management. Users suggest that it needs to improve its release cadence to add new features and functionality more quickly. Overall, Grafana provides a better user-friendly experience and more advanced features.
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"It is a stable solution."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The interface needs some work."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Grafana vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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