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.
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"Applications: This provides us insight into how our applications are performing within our environments and affords us the ability to identify opportunities and make changes to code / environment to effect positive performance lift."
"The most valuable feature is the live reporting on the current health\performance of our application"
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Maybe some more CPU power or something like that could be an area to improve."
"They need to improve the consolidation of agents for the agent's installation process."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"It could be a little more flexible in configuration on the back end."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The solution should include online support."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
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 ThousandEyes, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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