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.
"Transition tracing is the most valuable is pretty easy and useful, but the user experience piece is also good."
"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."
"It allows us to configure health rules so that we can, based on our own experience, determine when an application is behaving incorrectly."
"The solution helps us provide a better user experience to our customers."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"It has improved our organization with its ability to catch issues quickly and fix them."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"AppDynamics should improve its ability to track all the transactions."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"It could do with more than one data centre/multiple AWS accounts in a pane of glass. Also, improved scalability to large environments would be helpful."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"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."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The formatting could be better."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
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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