We performed a comparison between AppDynamics and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: According to user feedback, Grafana is the preferred option when compared to AppDynamics due to its open source features, customization abilities, and visually-pleasing graphs. It also boasts flexibility in integration with various tools and datasets. While AppDynamics has more features, Grafana is seen as more adaptable and user-friendly with moderate pricing and flexible licensing.
"The most valuable feature is the detailed statistics, like the consumer count, for the ActiveMQ server."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"We like the alert features."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"At this time, we don't have much visibility on the virtual environment, monitoring, and all other things. We have visibility only for database monitoring, and we have noticed performance impact when deploying database agents on the database server. We got to know this from AppDynamics support also that we should not deploy database agents from the database server. When agents are deployed on the same server and the database is monitored from there, we are not getting database server metrics. Therefore, we don't have those insights, and sometimes, we struggle because of that. They can improve this functionality so that we do not have a performance impact, and we can deploy anywhere. This would help us a lot. In terms of end-user monitoring, currently, it is not working for us because there are some complexities. It is a little complicated, and it takes a little bit of time to understand where you need to make changes. It would be very helpful if they can provide some template designs for end-user monitoring. When our servers are running on VMs, we don't get many insights from the VM side. I don't know whether it is possible to have visibility beyond the database, server, and application and whether there are some features where we can deploy AppDynamics on VMs as well. Such functionality would give us more control over storage, VM, OS, and database. It will also provide complete visibility of our hardware and software."
"I think I would like to see a better way to deploy and upgrade the machine agents that we use. Currently, we have to use SCCM, and that might just be our environment with the customer."
"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"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."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ITRS Geneos, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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