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.
"It is a good monitoring tool. Its stability is very good."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"We can make custom alerts in our system for specific issues like high CPU utilization or application downtime."
"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."
"Autodiscovery of application topology, based on real user traffic."
"AppDynamics' most valuable features are the response time of the business transaction modules, the ability to monitor multiple services, and testing and developing environments."
"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"It has good stability."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The QA and test environment need improvement."
"If AppDynamics could do a one-agent function with their actual monitoring effectiveness, it will be the greatest tool."
"Sometimes, it is hard to navigate through and find if something is wrong or figure out where an error stemmed from."
"In the current version of AppDynamics, there is a correlated section, where we can see all servers’ performance along with application performance, but network performance is missing."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"It needs strengthening in the database tiers."
"Additional support for NextGen mobile platforms also needs to be high in the roadmap prioritizations"
"I would like to see more of a unified platform. They're very, very new on the server side, machine agents. I want them to be more mature in this area."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 153 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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 ThousandEyes, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Datadog. See our AppDynamics vs. Grafana report.
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