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.
"Dynatrace has allowed us to pinpoint quickly any pain points our clients experience with our applications and respond accordingly."
"Quick availability of multiple aspects of performance from infrastructure to application layers."
"The Davis artificial intelligence built-in program is valuable. It keeps all the information about the systems, connections, service calls, and requests in its database. It looks at response times and keeps everything in check with baseline figures. If anything goes outside of that baseline, it reports based on that. If the performance starts degrading, it reports on that. Before something breaks, it tells you that it is going to break, and that's the most useful feature of Dynatrace."
"This solution has helped us to improve application performance and reduce issue-impact with faster resolutions."
"The PurePath stuff for deep dive analysis on problems. That is massive as far as having a benefit."
"I can review behaviors, trending issues, and resolve issues before they impact our clients."
"The most useful features are cloud monitoring, application monitoring, and alert notifications."
"Service engineers save a lot of time because they can just go in look at the data and share it with the customer, who has the same view, and say, "Here's an improvement which can be immediately implemented." It's not like a collection of big, multiple findings that are consolidated into one results presentation, then the customer needs to do something. It's more like a continuous performance analysis and improvement process, which is more efficient than those workshops approaches. That's one of the biggest of the advantages that our services team sees because it helps DevOps to focus on continuous delivery and shift quality issues to pre-production."
"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."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"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."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It has good stability."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"C language integration requires manual implementation through the SDK, which is rather difficult and time consuming."
"I would like to see single pane monitoring."
"The business use case is that most people want to see how many orders came in. I'd like to be able to get data out of JavaScript tags, and capture more data. I think that would make it much more useful, rather than using Google Analytics. Instead, have one tool to capture all the stack, that would make it easy."
"I find it is very difficult to train someone in using this application. As amazing as it can be, the learning curve is extensive."
"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."
"I would like to see the same features as in the New Relic Insights in the dashboard. That is the only thing I want to see improved in Dynatrace."
"Scalability-wise, on the data side, I'm really worried because they are giving only seven days data retention. They should plan something on that, to increase the data."
"Searches should be faster."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
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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