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.
"We are able to see globally our end user response time tracing down to the user ID."
"We have improved performance by 50% and determined conflicts in the application to eliminate errors."
"It used to take a lot of time to troubleshoot. Now, we can actually see the logs anytime we want. I can just find the problem. It has improved performance from a time perspective."
"The benefits we receive using this tool increase productivity, which increase revenue."
"We use Dynatrace to help us understand how applications perform in different platforms."
"Reduced incidents, as alert monitoring aids in quicker resolution of events."
"A monitoring system that can show us code level details."
"Real-time alerts allow us to address issues as they happen."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"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."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Dynatrace must reduce the required resources for on-premise, because they are too high."
"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."
"Scalability-wise, on the data side, I'm really worried because they are giving only seven days data retention. They should plan something on that, to increase the data."
"I would suggest to have more rich client features on Appmon as soon as possible."
"If you have many distributed servers, you will need to install or migrate every agent. This can be a problem if you have too many, and it takes time."
"Needs support for more technologies."
"I would like Dynatrace to be more flexible and user-friendly."
"A role-based view and a Python monitoring tool would make a simple user interface more usable."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"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."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
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 38 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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