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 most valuable feature of AppDynamics is its ability to track the transactions between different applications."
"The flow map is very valuable to us. Before we installed APM, we had no idea how our application looked."
"We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We can use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."
"Before we moved the code to AppDynamics, we had to compare the agile process and also had to make sure that they're following the standards."
"AppDynamics is scalable."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"We like the alert features."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"An area that has room for improvement on the CR and ERP would be the addition of monitoring of the internal solution. For example, you can monitor the day-to-day and everything in the transactions with AppDynamics, but there's also a lot going on in the kernel itself that you cannot monitor. The automation needs to improve as well. As it stands, a lot of customization needs to happen before you can use AppDynamics."
"More native support for other hardware is needed because having to install various extensions and perform extra setup for different devices is really challenging, and not as easy or straightforward as it is in other products."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
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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