We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds Pingdom based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"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."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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