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    Grafana

    Score8.7 out of 10
    		N/AGrafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.

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    Grafana
    Editions & Modules
    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Grafana
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Grafana
    Considered Both Products
    Grafana Labs
    Verified User
    Chose Grafana
    Easy to use
    Easy to configure
    Cost efficient
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Grafana
    Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Grafana
    Grafana gives more flexibility to explore its features. A new user can explore experiment and work with free Grafana account and find if it is suitable for them.Other platforms don't have the features in their freemium version that Grafana has. It lets us try features of …
    Incentivized
    Matthew Goodhall
    infastructure consultant in Information Technology at Vetasi Limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Grafana
    Grafana has a direct plugin to Icinga monitoring solution and allowed for easy configuration for us. At the time of implementation, other services did not have such an integration. As we already had a very customized and heavily introduced monitoring solution in place, we …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Grafana
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Grafana
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Grafana
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.05 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Grafana
    Feature
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.04 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.04 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Grafana
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Publish to Web7.04 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.04 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.04 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Grafana
    Feature
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.04 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.04 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Grafana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Grafana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Grafana Labs
    Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Pros
    Grafana Labs
    • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
    • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
    • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
    • Microservices monitoring
    • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Cons
    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
    ANurag Tamrakar
    Software Engineer - DevOps
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    Usability
    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Alternatives Considered
    Grafana Labs
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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    Return on Investment
    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
    Incentivized
    Verified User
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