We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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: Dynatrace is preferred over Grafana due to its AI capabilities, real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities. It offers good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications, with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. While Grafana is praised for its customizable and visually appealing graphs and flexibility in integration with other tools, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"I like the auto email alerting feature the most, as it is set up based on the application error or condition."
"In the AppMon, offering, currently, the most valuable feature is the PurePath analysis, being able to deep-dive into call chains."
"Dynatrace helped us to get a better understanding of how our services are communicating with each other, as well as better problem detection before something really breaks"
"Quick availability of multiple aspects of performance from infrastructure to application layers."
"It has helped us deliver better solutions to our end customers, and helps them in their digital transformation journey."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"No other provider gives us log ingestion, Kubernetes/Docker monitoring, and application monitoring for NodeJS."
"It helps to show where the problem is and isolates the issue."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"There are a lot of features that could be added that would make this a very useful solution, but it is getting there."
"Our primary wish list for RFEs or feature requests are additional integration options with ticketing systems. Although, we are able to work around it, 'ticketing' is not a core function of the product."
"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."
"Dashboards are too clumsy, so it is good to keep less on dashboards and be easier to find the sections."
"I also wish there was the ability to do alert filtering before it triggered an alert with PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Slack."
"I'd really like to see more dashboarding abilities. The ability to do workflows within dashboards, being able to start at a high level and click into it with custom dashboards. I think most of the time, we are creating our own custom dashboards, and I'd just like to see more ability with that."
"There are lots of features to share information, but we need to learn to leverage that, both on the web browser and on the mobile app."
"Make the Web UI more robust. Last time I used the web interface, it was still pretty crude."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Prometheus, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana report.
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