We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The solution can scale well."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"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."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"The formatting could be better."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds AppOptics 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 SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, New Relic and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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