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."The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The formatting could be better."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th 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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor and Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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