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.
"The monitoring is very good."
"It is a 100 percent stable solution...Dynatrace is a highly scalable product since it is a SaaS-based application."
"Dynatrace is stable."
"The visibility that it provides is most valuable."
"Dynatrace has the most features compared to other products we looked at."
"It is a very good APM tool. There is a lot of thorough scanning of services and applications. It has got great monitoring features."
"Dynatrace has reduced our total headcount in operations and the mean time to detect and resolve problems. As a result, those challenging offline times are much shorter, if not non-existent, because of this solution."
"Great for monitoring critical internal and public-facing applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"What needs improvement in Dynatrace is its dashboard. Creating dashboards in Dynatrace is good, but compared to Grafana, which is integrated with Broadcom DX APM, the resulting dashboard in Dynatrace isn't as clear. The Dynatrace dashboard needs to be more graphic."
"An area for improvement would be security. In the next release, I'd like to see more network-centric capabilities - Dynatrace is good at the network level, but I have to leverage other network solutions and integrate with them, but a holistic approach including the network as a one-stop-shop would be great."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"The documentation of Dynatrace needs to be improved. There needs to be a more detailed description and additional examples for background understanding for beginners trying to use it."
"I would say that this solution's reports are lacking a little bit, and because of this, you have to rely on API to fetch and pull data. I think they could have done a bit of a better job by providing a more user-friendly search from a reporting perspective."
"The solution could improve by allowing more dashboards customization. This would allow us to monitor the metric better."
"The reporting could be better."
"In the next release, I'd like to see more portables included regarding the screens."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The solution should include online support."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 23 reviews while Grafana is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 33 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.4, while Grafana is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "Allows us to monitor application performance, underlying infrastructure, and relationships with Smartscape technology". 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 Instana Dynamic APM, whereas Grafana is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Sentry, Honeycomb.io and Elastic Observability. See our Dynatrace vs. Grafana report.
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