We performed a comparison between Grafana and Splunk APM 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."It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"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."
"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 volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"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."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 14th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Dynatrace. See our Grafana vs. Splunk APM report.
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