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.
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"I like that AppDynamics allows every organization to have what they want to see, like for my organization, we're able to customize the dashboard to show us details of what we want to see in our transactions."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The best feature of AppDynamics is the analytics, which gives us the business insights of the application."
"What I like best about AppDynamics is that it's functional, particularly in APM in Java and .NET."
"We're a large organization, so we appreciate AppDynamics' wide coverage. It may not work in all areas, but it has broad coverage. We can use the same dataset for different use case aspects. That is the beauty of AppDynamics. You can coordinate APM, EUM, and infrastructure through one dataset."
"Technical support is helpful."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution has good features."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"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."
"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."
"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."
"The resolution time takes longer than expected."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"AppDynamics' modules and hardware resources are very high."
"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The solution should include online support."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 24 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 33 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 7.8, while Grafana is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Good tracing capabilities and helpful technical support but needs better analytics". 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 Oracle Enterprise Manager, whereas Grafana is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, New Relic, Sentry and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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