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.
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We can use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"It reduces the time to resolve issues and requires less manpower."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is Proactive Monitoring and Alerting."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution has good features."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The agent deployment could be simplified by, for example, adding a GUI."
"Their support should be improved. Clusters and monitoring can also be improved."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The documentation and training material have room for improvement."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"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."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"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."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 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 ThousandEyes, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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