AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs Grafana comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Browser Real-Us...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
23rd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Grafana
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Grafana is 7.8%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

EmilSiric - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 22, 2024
Ensures invaluable insights into user experience and performance while providing seamless troubleshooting and optimization for critical web applications
The most valuable feature is the capability to automatically detect and identify encounter rates and problematic sections within transactions. This encompasses all systems, code, APIs, analyses, metrics, and baselines. While this feature remains unchanged, envisioning the ability to effortlessly identify slow transactions and potential causes stands out as an invaluable option. Essentially, it streamlines the management of end-to-end transactions, facilitating seamless troubleshooting and optimization. The standout feature for real-time performance monitoring in this tool is its ability to seamlessly correlate frontend and backend functions. It provides a comprehensive view across all layers and systems, enabling users to swiftly identify the root cause of any issues. This primary function is particularly valuable, offering precise insights into problem areas and bottlenecks. Additionally, the tool facilitates the identification of peak times and other performance patterns. The page load time traffic analysis feature has been instrumental in assisting our customers with optimizing the web experience for their users. It enables the identification of slow sessions and offers insights into the factors influencing page load times. One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website. This capability provides insights into where users encounter obstacles or drop off, allowing for targeted optimization efforts. For instance, in an e-commerce setting, it's possible to pinpoint precisely where users abandon their purchases or encounter difficulties, facilitating improvements in those specific areas of the user journey.
VardanSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 13, 2023
Good dashboards, stable, and scalable
We use the solution for integrated logging, which works on our Kubernetes cluster and our separate VM.  The solution allows our teams to search and conduct application troubleshooting. The dashboards are the most valuable features. I would like to have a better configuration in the next release.…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website."
"The feature we find most valuable, is that the solution creates a unified platform making it really easy to pinpoint a problem, and then drill down into a transaction to resolve the issue."
"The most valuable feature is the one that enables you to have visibility into the end-users journey."
"It is a stable solution that helps address user issues well."
"It provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications."
"We can see the customer's path from their computer to the backend systems."
"We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
 

Cons

"I would like to have customizable dashboards to use when I am monitoring certain applications."
"They do not have robust documentation."
"While I am not expecting it in the next release, I would want more centralized management of the agent in the platform and better support."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elements that come into play on websites."
"The interface and user experience could be better."
"AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine."
"If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions."
"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"​The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards.​"
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring does have licensing cost associated with it."
"We have two different licensing models for this solution. One of them is the agent based model, which requires payment per agent. The other is an infrastructure based model, where the price is based on the CPU core. For the infrastructure model wholesale level pricing applies. All of the up to date licensing prices for this product are available on the manufacturers website."
"AppDynamics is more expensive than competitors."
"The pricing needs to come down."
"This price of this product is expensive."
"AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."
"I give the price an eight out of ten."
"I am using an open-source version"
"My company uses the open-source version of Grafana, so it's free."
"We use the open-source version of Grafana."
"I use the open source model so it is free."
"It's free of cost; it operates as an open-source tool."
"You need to purchase the solution's license for its commercial use."
"We are using the open-source license."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions are best for your needs.
787,779 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring?
One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring?
The pricing falls within the mid-range category. I would rate it between three to five because considering the features provided, it offers value for money. If utilized effectively, the investment ...
What needs improvement with AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring?
In user monitoring, AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring should provide a better user experience. It needs to offer an end-to-end experience, including the internet layer and third-party elemen...
What do you like most about Grafana?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Grafana?
For me, Grafana is a cheap tool because I don't have to spend much time learning the product since it is a simple solution. I don't know if there are different paid versions of the product.
What needs improvement with Grafana?
It was pretty complicated to integrate the product into our workflow. We relied on templates we found on the GitHub open-source repositories. It is pretty hard to integrate Grafana and set it up ac...
 

Learn More

Video not available
Video not available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia
Microsoft, Adobe, Optum, Sky, Nvidia, Roblox, Wells Fargo, BlackRock, Informatica, Maersk, Daimler Truck, SNCF, Atlassian, DHL, SAP, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, Citi and many others.
Find out what your peers are saying about AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Grafana and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
787,779 professionals have used our research since 2012.