We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds Pingdom 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."Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"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."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The solution can scale well."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"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."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The formatting could be better."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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