We performed a comparison between Grafana and Splunk APM 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."It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The solution should include online support."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Dynatrace. See our Grafana vs. Splunk APM report.
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