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 solution can scale well."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It has good stability."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"It is stable."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The interface needs some work."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"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 product is old and not updated."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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 eG Enterprise, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Nagios XI, PRTG Network Monitor and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Grafana vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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