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.
"Mean time to root cause analysis decreased drastically."
"It provides us a reference for being able to go back and look at data at a certain point, analyze it, then determine if something was the root cause."
"The Dynatrace support team that we have is great and the staff that we have had onsite has been consistently good."
"We can know exactly what happened in what time with PurePath."
"I think one of the most valuable features is the Dynatrace API, for both metrics and configuration."
"A very powerful solution for the end user."
"It is nice to be able to deep dive and pull historical data."
"Dynatrace AppMon has allowed a deep dive review of performance problems in near real-time for our primary external website and related web apps and web services."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"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 comparison feature is very good."
"The solution can scale well."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"UEM (User Experience Management) works great for web clients and Android and IOS apps, but for other rich clients it's a lot more challenging."
"When compared with other tools, the experience needs improvement. I would like them to build out the interactions and make them friendlier."
"I am unable to use Synthetic to automate user login."
"The only challenge is that it's an extensive tool that requires a significant amount of time to learn."
"Its needs to focus more on open source areas, like Apache umbrella products and availability motioning areas."
"We'd like it to be more user-friendly, which, in our case, might be a big ask as we have a fairly complex environment."
"The Web UI can be slow and hard to understand."
"The reporting could be better."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 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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