We performed a comparison between Grafana and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana is the preferred choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its flexibility, open source nature, and ability to cater to multiple use cases. It has a better UI dashboard, live monitoring, alerts, and heat maps. WhatsUp Gold is cost-effective and has good documentation, but it lacks real-time monitoring and configuration management. Users suggest that it needs to improve its release cadence to add new features and functionality more quickly. Overall, Grafana provides a better user-friendly experience and more advanced features.
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The documentation is very good."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"The formatting could be better."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"The interface needs some work."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"Adding on services increases the cost and on the version we have there is no option for ATM monitoring."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"The product is old and not updated."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Grafana vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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