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."The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The solution should include online support."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"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."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. Splunk APM report.
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