We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and Grafana 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 provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base."
"We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software."
"We can see the customer's path from their computer to the backend systems."
"The most valuable feature is the one that enables you to have visibility into the end-users journey."
"The feature we find most valuable, is that the solution creates a unified platform making it really easy to pinpoint a problem, and then drill down into a transaction to resolve the issue."
"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring."
"It is a stable solution that helps address user issues well."
"The most valuable feature is that we can see how our end-users are interacting with our application across regions."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"We like the alert features."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution."
"The interface and user experience could be better."
"While I am not expecting it in the next release, I would want more centralized management of the agent in the platform and better support."
"We would like to be able to easily use this solution to monitor our Java script based browsers, which are currently blocked by the security settings."
"AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine."
"I would like to see support for mobile testing and mobile monitoring."
"They do not have robust documentation."
"I would like to have customizable dashboards to use when I am monitoring certain applications."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"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 formatting could be better."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
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AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 25th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring writes "End-to-end visibility, feature-rich, but the support could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic, Sentry and AWS X-Ray, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace. See our AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Grafana report.
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