We performed a comparison between Grafana and SolarWinds Pingdom 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."Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"The solution should include online support."
"The formatting could be better."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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