We performed a comparison between Dynatrace 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: Dynatrace is preferred over Grafana due to its AI capabilities, real user monitoring, session replay, and synthetic monitoring functionalities. It offers good visibility and thorough scanning of services and applications, with the ability to drill down and analyze traffic. While Grafana is praised for its customizable and visually appealing graphs and flexibility in integration with other tools, it lacks some of the advanced features and capabilities of Dynatrace.
"The ability to use PurePath in analytics is definitely the most valuable feature. It helps you pinpoint issues, then develop and focus them in the right way."
"The most valuable features are the UEM (User Experience Monitoring) and the DEM (Digital Experience Management)."
"We like the on-premises platform and the horizontal scalability."
"Dynatrace has the most features compared to other products we looked at."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"We are quite happy with the support that they have been providing."
"It helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"Quick Fault Domain Isolations: When people are having a problem, understanding where to look."
"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."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The solution has good features."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The licensing part is complicated or not transparent. It is very difficult to assess the number of licenses for a prospect. You have to do a PoC, and calculating the number of licenses for two years or three years is sometimes very difficult. It also depends on each case. There are multiple types of licenses. Sometimes, you need only one of them, and sometimes, you need all of them. This is an area for improvement."
"We're thinking about moving to Dynatrace because AppMon is not scaling for us."
"On the one hand we have Dynatrace, on the other hand, we have AppMon. We know Dynatrace is more powerful, with a lot of functions, but there are some core functions AppMon has that Dynatrace needs. Our main use is AppMon and we have not gone to Dynatrace because we don't have those specific functions that we need."
"Make it easier to define applications. E.g., provide an API for applications defined by REST services."
"If you have many distributed servers, you will need to install or migrate every agent. This can be a problem if you have too many, and it takes time."
"It would be nice to have a simplified monitoring feature for non-Java applications."
"It is necessary to improve the integration with the product, Oracle Siebel."
"It often produces "false alarms" and cannot identify failure patterns over days/weeks that do not indicate concern."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"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."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The solution should include online support."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Prometheus, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana report.
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