We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds Pingdom 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."There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"It has good stability."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"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."
"The solution should include online support."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 49th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 SolarWinds Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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