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.
"Our customers are now able to control their infrastructure with a single tool, and can easily check the connections with all components."
"The AppMon solution helped the operations guys to pinpoint one problem area and call the specific group, instead of everyone. The mean time to repair and the resource utilization time, they are totally reduced."
"Our development group has started using Dynatrace extensively. It helps them find bottlenecks caused by code."
"Since we have been receiving alerts from Dynatrace, we go ahead and fix them without the user knowing about them."
"It is really comfortable and easy to use for application monitoring. We are able to see and go deep into the problem. We didn't have any issues with this product."
"The most valuable function is the ability to replay a customer session."
"The NeoLoad plugin is awesome, and it gets results from load tests correlated with test scenarios."
"Dynatrace's documentation is great. I love the university."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The web version of the client interface needs more features that are in the Java-based thick client."
"We would also like to see all the good data in a single view across multiple tools, so that access to integration is critical."
"There were a number of marketing promises that were made, which we do not see it in the tool yet. "
"Our primary wish list for RFEs or feature requests are additional integration options with ticketing systems. Although, we are able to work around it, 'ticketing' is not a core function of the product."
"Enterprise Synthetic of DC RUM can be made more robust."
"We have had problems with our middle layer application implementation."
"I do not like after 60 days or 90 days it gets aggregated to summary data. I would like to be able to analyze specific PurePaths after 30 days or 60 days with real numbers."
"Monitoring asynchronous code requires manual instrumentation (most of the time)."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"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."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
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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