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 is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"I have found the main feature of the solution to be its ability to analyze an application's code to see where there are issues. Additionally, it is easy to use and configure."
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"In AppDynamics, everywhere I go, there's some sort of grouping and aggregation function, or there's some sort of timeline that lets me zero in more quickly on the traces that I need. They go to more pains to aggregate and bubble the important ones to the top. That removes a lot of manual work."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"It's made it easier to collaborate across teams; be able to have the same data immediately in front of you just by sharing a URL."
"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."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The solution can scale well."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"The dashboard can be better. Also, the automated reports could be improved."
"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"The cost element is an issue. I can't expect the company to change its way of work. However, given the fact that we earn and do all our business in South African Rand, I would prefer to buy in Rand as opposed to the American dollar or British pound."
"The UI could use a little help."
"It would help to maybe have a more graphical interface and more user-friendly graphics."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The formatting could be better."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
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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