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.
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The solution can scale well."
"It is a stable solution."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"It is stable."
"The documentation is very good."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"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."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
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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