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."Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"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 features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"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."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"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."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM). See our Grafana vs. Splunk APM report.
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