We performed a comparison between Grafana and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana is the preferred choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its flexibility, open source nature, and ability to cater to multiple use cases. It has a better UI dashboard, live monitoring, alerts, and heat maps. WhatsUp Gold is cost-effective and has good documentation, but it lacks real-time monitoring and configuration management. Users suggest that it needs to improve its release cadence to add new features and functionality more quickly. Overall, Grafana provides a better user-friendly experience and more advanced features.
"It has good stability."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It is a stable solution."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The documentation is very good."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"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."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Grafana vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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