We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor 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: Grafana stands out due to its open-source nature, flexibility in integration, and visually appealing graphs. SolarWinds falls short in terms of stability, flexibility, ease of use, and pricing, although it offers valuable monitoring capabilities. Grafana's customer service and pricing are positively reviewed. Overall, Grafana is user-friendly and provides a positive return on investment, making it the preferred solution.
"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."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"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."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"The most valuable feature is the Access Rights Manager."
"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"AppInsight for SQL: Enables us to see the relevant error log entries on the same page as performance parameters."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"Identifying the problem statement is easy."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."
"The major concern in the product revolves around application performance monitoring since end-to-end application monitoring is not possible with the tool."
"PerfStack can be made more effective. I am sure SolarWinds already has a plan for the same in coming versions."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
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Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 21st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and SCOM. See our Grafana vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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