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.
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"It is a stable solution."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."
"Capacity planning is, in my opinion, the most useful."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"While it is scalable, it could be better."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"There are too many installers available for this solution."
"The cloud licensing needs to be improved. It's quite pricey."
"We have had downtime, which has been the result of config, application, or cord issues."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The formatting could be better."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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 ITRS Geneos, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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