We performed a comparison between Grafana and Alluvio Aternity 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 preferred over Alluvio Aternity due to its open-source nature, flexibility in integration with other tools, and ability to cater to multiple use cases. It offers a more user-friendly experience with customizable and visually appealing graphs, live monitoring, alerts, and heat maps. Alluvio Aternity could benefit from more customizable reporting options and a better licensing model.
"The ability to quickly utilize the dashboard to gather information is valuable from a DXI perspective."
"The most valuable features for us are the Incident Management dashboard, Application Status dashboard, and Activity Analysis UI."
"The dashboards of this platform are the most valuable, especially the Desktop Health dashboard."
"The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it."
"The data the solution provides is valuable to us; we can see the health of the machines, how they are performing, and what might be causing issues on a particular machine."
"The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us."
"The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to monitor the productivity of every employee in the company as well as third-party, outsourced companies that work on our behalf."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Integrating the tool with other products is a challenge."
"I want more reporting around asset management, with greater flexibility and customization ability."
"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."
"It all comes in pretty nice looking charts and things, but we have a hard time pulling out hard data, which is usually what you'll need if you're trying to be actionable."
"For me, the biggest problem is the price. It is not so much about how much it costs. It is about Aternity only giving you 12 months upfront. So, you got to purchase it for 12 months. A lot of our customers are on a per-user-per-month type billing. They are all OPEX rather than CAPEX. It would be a lot better for our customers if there was an option available for OPEX so that it is billed on a monthly basis than a yearly basis. They've got only Windows agents. They don't actually have mobile agents. It would be a lot better if they could also integrate Android and iOS because then we can start pulling steps and performance management out of users' mobile devices. That's the biggest addition I would suggest at the moment. A lot of our customers have desktops as well as tablets or mobile devices. We should be able to monitor that stuff as well."
"Reliability: Issues interfering with the deployment and use of the product has made its use reduced in scope."
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"When it comes to a lot of the features that I would want, they will tell you they are in their SaaS version, which we don't use... They put all the new features on the SaaS solution and that's where you get the latest and greatest stuff... Why not have those features available for on-prem users?"
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"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."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
Alluvio Aternity is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Grafana report.
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