Grafana vs. Redash

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana 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.
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Redash
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Redash is a data visualization tool designed to allow users to connect and query any data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with a company. Databricks acquired Redash in June 2020.N/A
Pricing
GrafanaRedash
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
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GrafanaRedash
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
GrafanaRedash
Features
GrafanaRedash
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
Redash
6.9
Ratings
20% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
6.8
Ratings
16% below category average
Redash
6.1
Ratings
27% below category average
Drill-down analysis6.00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.00 Ratings2.70 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.4
Ratings
0% below category average
Redash
5.4
Ratings
44% below category average
Publish to Web7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Report Versioning9.00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.00 Ratings2.60 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.00 Ratings3.90 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
Redash
6.4
Ratings
24% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
GrafanaRedash
Small Businesses
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 10.0 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 10.0 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Dataiku
Dataiku
Score 7.6 out of 10
Dataiku
Dataiku
Score 7.6 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
GrafanaRedash
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GrafanaRedash
Likelihood to Recommend
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
Read full review
Redash is good in following conditions: Amazing query editor with lots of auto-complete feature for SQLDoes not require hassle and provide an easy interface to connect to various DB Good integration points with various DB's Easy and Simple Dashboarding functionality It lacks in following areas: Dashboarding and Reporting feature is not that extensive [fewer] filters for Periodic filters as well scheduled reports
Read full review
Pros
  • 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
Read full review
  • Detailed Reporting.
  • Real-time data.
  • Vast array of reporting.
Read full review
Cons
  • Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners
  • Notification alert message templates need to be simplified
Read full review
  • At times, the response time for the query takes more than a minute
  • Dashboard refreshes used to take time
  • Auto indentation was not there
Read full review
Usability
Great usage in terms of monitoring of any application from backend to frontend and even any AWS resource via cloud watch and other connectors. Easy to use and configure personalised dash boarding and alerting features. Cost efficient and easy to setup and run, no mazor scaling challenges in terms of managing and maintaining the stack, easy to configure via Prometheus, influx and other connectors
Read full review
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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 offer nearly as much flexibility. The other thing I like about Grafana is their storage usage is much lower compared to similar tools and competitors
Read full review
Redash has easy query access compared to Tableau, athena or google cloud services
Read full review
Return on Investment
  • It has kicked out some of our paid monitoring and visualization tools.
  • Now Monitoring, Visualization and Alerting is being done in a single platform.
  • It made monitoring and visualization very easy for us.
Read full review
  • So as far as investment its just the time you need to give and done.
  • You can host Redash on your server and just pay as you go.
  • There isn't much investment but a lot of things will be solved around reporting and charting.
Read full review
ScreenShots