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.
"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 most valuable feature is the flow map."
"In 2014 and 2015, AppDynamics was one of the best products on the market."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"The most valuable feature in AppDynamics is the identifying of the slow responses. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The AppDyniamics technical support is good. We haven't had any problems with them. They answer very quickly."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."
"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."
"When you have high stress of visits I do not know if you are more stress because of the amount of visits or because you have to wait eternal 60 seconds to find out it things are going well or you already have mess."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"Rolling out version upgrades is a difficult job at times."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"The Log Analytics feature is a bit complicated."
"We constantly need to improve our alert mechanism because we get a lot of false-positive alerts. These are not real errors. In addition, for end-user monitoring, sometimes, we are not able to catch all user activities. Because of not being able to follow the user activity from the start to the end, we are missing out on the performance issues."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
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 ITRS Geneos, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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