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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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    Shiny

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AShiny allows users to create data visualization apps, and is designed to be easy to write with. These apps let users interact with data and analyses with R or Python.N/A
    Pricing
    GrafanaShiny
    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
    GrafanaShiny
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GrafanaShiny
    Considered Both Products
    Grafana Labs
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GrafanaShiny
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Grafana and Shiny
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Shiny
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Grafana and Shiny
    Feature
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Shiny
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    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Grafana and Shiny
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Grafana and Shiny
    Feature
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Shiny
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    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    GrafanaShiny
    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
    GrafanaShiny
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    GrafanaShiny
    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
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    Shiny is well suited where an organisation is looking to empower their analysts to minimise time spent on repetitive analysis by deploying repeatable analytical pipelines, but also looking for them to add greater value to the organisation by utilising more advanced analytical techniques. Ideally it is well suited where IT are on board and supportive of some of the more advanced features such as deploying R Shiny dashboards.
    Incentivized
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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
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • Data tables are appealing to look at.
    • Enables us to create trend indexes in an effective way.
    • Easy to integrate with the rest of my R syntax.
    Incentivized
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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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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • Easier ways to connect to data sources
    • Better access control for different roles in the organization
    • Video material that allows a better learning experience
    Incentivized
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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
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    - Faster response working with a large amount of data. - R Studio connection and flexibility. - Scenarios modelling.
    Incentivized
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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
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • We saw a good involvement to researchers when showing their models in shiny.
    • We can have a quicker review from the user when the model is in production.
    • False positives can be found easily and they help the retraining of the model.
    Incentivized
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