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 integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"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 most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It is a stable solution."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"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 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."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"The formatting could be better."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
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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