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."We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"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."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"We like the alert features."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The solution can scale well."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"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 security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"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."
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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