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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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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    Kibana

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AKibana allows users to visualize Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack so you can do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.N/A
    Pricing
    GrafanaKibana
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GrafanaKibana
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    GrafanaKibana
    Considered Both Products
    Grafana Labs
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    Elastic
    Chose Kibana
    Well when it comes to using Kibana when compared to Datadog, I can say that Kibana is pretty [...] cheap. Apart from APM and Datadog hosted agents, Kibana gives a good competition to Datadog for real time log analysis as well as metrics analysis.
    While OpsGenie is a great tool …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GrafanaKibana
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Grafana and Kibana
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Kibana
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.05 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Grafana and Kibana
    Feature
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Kibana
    5.7
    5 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.04 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.04 Ratings3.04 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Grafana and Kibana
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Kibana
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Publish to Web7.04 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.04 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.04 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.04 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Grafana and Kibana
    Feature
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Kibana
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.04 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.04 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    GrafanaKibana
    Small Businesses
    Looker Studio
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Looker Studio
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kibana
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Grafana
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GrafanaKibana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GrafanaKibana
    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
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    Elastic
    Kibana is indeed a powerful tool and has many use cases especially in environments that rely heavily on real-time log analysis and visualisation. Kibana’s ability to handle large volumes of log data and present it in an accessible, searchable format is invaluable. We use Kibana to monitor security related issues and it proactively alerts our Slack channels about any anomality or issues.
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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
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    Elastic
    • Fast searches with powerful index.
    • Beautiful data visualizations.
    • Real-time observability.
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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.
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    Elastic
    • Some performance issues with large datasets.
    • Linking to dashboards makes extremely long urls.
    • Lack of reports.
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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
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    Elastic
    Its usability is generally good and it provides teams with a basic to intermediate understanding about data visualization. It is very user-friendly when it comes to creating dashboards. The UI is very good and simple. Its integration with other tools for alerting and reporting is amazing. But its advance features have a learning curve and a first timer needs some time to use the advance features.
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    Support Rating
    Grafana Labs
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    Elastic
    We did not use the official Kibana support. Documentation was easy enough to follow.
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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.
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    Elastic
    Kibana is free; it was the first and only thing we've tried in this area.
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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
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    Elastic
    • Issues that affect checkout experiences for customers are able to be prioritized and solved quickly.
    • We are able to more efficiently use resources due to the automation of reporting alerts. Decreasing employee resources needed.
    • Visualization allows us to quickly share issues and explain to coworkers in order to escalate issues that can cost our bottom line.
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