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Grafana vs SolarWinds AppOptics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Grafana users appreciate efficient support through active community forums, responsive customer service, and comprehensive documentation for effective issue resolution.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.2
Grafana users seek better security, reporting, integrations, user-friendliness, alerting, licensing flexibility, charting, and stability improvements.
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It would be better if they made the technology easy to use without needing to read extensive documentation.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.5
Grafana is scalable and supports many users, though it can be complex and costly, especially in the open-source version.
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Setup Cost

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Grafana provides free open-source and paid enterprise editions, with pricing based on infrastructure and daily metric ingestion.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Grafana is highly rated for stability, though backend improvements and issues with extensive SRE techniques are noted by some.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
Grafana offers customizable dashboards, integration flexibility, and efficient data sharing, excelling as a cost-effective, open-source visualization tool.
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It's comparable to Terraform, and I prefer CloudWatch.
 

Categories and Ranking

Grafana
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SolarWinds AppOptics
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
48th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (55th), Cloud Monitoring Software (36th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Grafana is 7.2%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds AppOptics is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Beneficial operational excellence, reliable, and scalable
We are using Grafana for observability dashboards Grafana has helped our organization with observability and operational excellence. Operational excellence is a key part of any organization from a data platform perspective and setting the alerts and monitoring policies on Grafana was easy. The…
John Yuko - PeerSpot reviewer
Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions
I would like to see more granular information provided on Unix applications. Also, the integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward in terms having an agent to retrieve your credentials rather than having to enter or save them for SSH on SolarWinds. From the outset, we had to set some commands to log into the search console, and they are saved on the solution, which presents a challenge in terms of exposure. The solution is unable to monitor APK solutions completely because we'd then be forced to break down the APK and provide the APIs or go through the source code. They don't have a module that can analyze an application that is maybe under-used.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
6%
Educational Organization
64%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
5%
Government
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Grafana?
For me, Grafana is a cheap tool because I don't have to spend much time learning the product since it is a simple solution. I don't know if there are different paid versions of the product.
What needs improvement with Grafana?
The features are complicated and not intuitive. It would be better if they made the technology easy to use without needing to read extensive documentation. The dashboard interface is too wide, and ...
What needs improvement with SolarWinds AppOptics?
The solution should be more user-friendly.
What is your primary use case for SolarWinds AppOptics?
I used the solution for monitoring servers and network equipment.
 

Also Known As

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AppOptics, SolarWinds TraceView, Librato
 

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Sample Customers

Microsoft, Adobe, Optum, Sky, Nvidia, Roblox, Wells Fargo, BlackRock, Informatica, Maersk, Daimler Truck, SNCF, Atlassian, DHL, SAP, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, Citi and many others.
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