We performed a comparison between Grafana and WhatsUp Gold 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 the preferred choice over WhatsUp Gold due to its flexibility, open source nature, and ability to cater to multiple use cases. It has a better UI dashboard, live monitoring, alerts, and heat maps. WhatsUp Gold is cost-effective and has good documentation, but it lacks real-time monitoring and configuration management. Users suggest that it needs to improve its release cadence to add new features and functionality more quickly. Overall, Grafana provides a better user-friendly experience and more advanced features.
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The solution can scale well."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"The solution should include online support."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 36th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 21 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "Accurate network monitoring, but tech support is lacking". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and VMware Aria Operations for Applications, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI, PRTG Network Monitor and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Grafana vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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