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.
"The data collected by the agents on each end point is the most valuable feature for us."
"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 detailed level of information you are able to get on the complete environment all of the way down to a specific machine."
"We've looked at the Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) to see how our digital experience compares to others who use the solution. We have used that to see how we are trending and it gives us some insight into areas that we might need to focus more on. That's helpful."
"The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."
"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."
"The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to monitor the productivity of every employee in the company as well as third-party, outsourced companies that work on our behalf."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"I would like to see more granular performance counters collected and viewable from the endpoints. That would be great."
"The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions."
"The licensing model doesn't suit the market we are in and has room for improvement."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"I would improve the dashboard, the presentation player."
"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."
"To monitor these transactions, you need to look at it, analyze it and capture it. It requires a little bit of work, but in an environment like ours, you need it to be easier."
"I would like to get more granular detail. In regards to defining the applications and activities upfront, that can be challenging. Simplifying that would be a big win. One of the things that I know they are already working on is a verbose mode."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
Alluvio Aternity is ranked 19th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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 Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Grafana report.
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