We performed a comparison between Grafana and Splunk APM 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 is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The solution has good features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"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."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"It has good stability."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"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 is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM). See our Grafana vs. Splunk APM report.
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