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.
"All of it, but it depends on who the end user is. The folks that support the applications, like the signatures that we've developed, it gives them feedback on their application performance."
"It is useful for working out whether there are any issues in the network or between the endpoints. It is also useful for working out any performance issues. It has been useful for a lot of stuff around Teams. Our customers like to know what's happening with Teams when they call in. It is helpful for easily profiling users. It records all the applications that are being used for each user, and you can see what users are doing. It is very good in terms of performance. You don't have to wait forever to try and get reports or results. It is quite quick to get everything that you need out of the software."
"It is a tool that helps me check users' computers really quickly without having a help desk administrator logging in and doing analysis. Anyone who has access to Aternity, including our support team, can log onto Aternity and do a quick, basic analysis."
"Other features we use heavily are the WiFi analyzer, the Skype for Business analyzer, and the troubleshooting functionalities. We also use the Device Health quite religiously here for troubleshooting devices that are unhealthy, when we're talking about things like high CPU or memory consumption, or file system problems within the users' workstations."
"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us."
"The infrastructure data, especially the CPU and memory data, is per second, which makes it outstanding as compared to other solutions. Its licensing cost is very low for us."
"It is a stable solution."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"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."
"Reports were a lot easier in the older versions"
"Their technical support should be improved in terms of response time. Its stability should also be better. We are currently using version 10, and its stability is not so high. The server crashes from time to time and needs to be restarted. Sometimes, you also have problems with applications."
"The dashboards and navigatability of the platform could use improvement. It often takes five or six clicks to drill down to exactly what you want to see."
"I want more reporting around asset management, with greater flexibility and customization ability."
"The solution's downloadable reports could be improved."
"Aternity doesn't currently provide metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps. It's something you have to build out. It's not 'canned' that way and there is a lot of configuration that you have to do to the environment to collect the data you want to collect and that is important to you."
"Right now, the user information being displayed by Aternity is received from AD. Ideally, we would like to see integration with other sources for user information, like other databases, so we are not limited to AD."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"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."
Alluvio Aternity is ranked 20th 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 Azure Monitor, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Grafana report.
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