We performed a comparison between Grafana and Instana Dynamic APM 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 open source, flexible in integration, and has a strong community with helpful forums. While Instana has a user-friendly GUI and real-time data generation, it falls short in terms of integration and AI-based anomaly detection. Overall, Grafana is preferred for its wide range of features and scalability.
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"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."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."
"The detailing of our application behavior and user experience is most valuable. In case there is an issue, we typically use Instana to figure it out. We can drill down to the application and figure out what's going on and where the issue is."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's great for monitoring services and applications."
"Visually, it's very good. It provides everything needed for dynamic detection, which is very useful."
"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."
"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."
"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."
"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."
"Its SLI and SLA features need improvement in setting up alerts."
"Maybe log monitoring could be better."
"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."
"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."
"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Instana Dynamic APM is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Instana Dynamic APM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Instana Dynamic APM writes "A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Instana Dynamic APM is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, IBM Application Performance Management and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. Instana Dynamic APM report.
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