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."There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The solution has good features."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"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."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"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."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The formatting could be better."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"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 monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"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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