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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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    Virtana Platform

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AVirtana delivers enterprise-grade deep hybrid infrastructure observability, enabling organizations to achieve visibility and control across their entire IT estate. The platform unifies monitoring of on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, to transform complex infrastructure management into a strategic advantage. Core Platform Capabilities Deep Infrastructure Observability: · Automated topology discovery and mapping · Real…

    $5

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    Pricing
    GrafanaVirtana Platform
    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
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $5
    per month per device
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GrafanaVirtana Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Volume discounts are available (600+ devices / month) A device is any running AWS EC2 or Azure VM evaluated by Virtana Optimize in a given month
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    Community Pulse
    GrafanaVirtana Platform
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    Grafana Labs
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    Virtana
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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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
    GrafanaVirtana Platform
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Grafana and Virtana Platform
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Virtana Platform
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    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 Virtana Platform
    Feature
    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Virtana Platform
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    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 Virtana Platform
    Feature
    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Virtana Platform
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    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 Virtana Platform
    Feature
    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Virtana Platform
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    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
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    GrafanaVirtana Platform
    Small Businesses
    Looker Studio
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Datadog
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kibana
    Score7.2 out of 10
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GrafanaVirtana Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    GrafanaVirtana Platform
    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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    Virtana
    Overall I would say that we have been very happy with Zenoss. It has been a great server monitoring tool. There are certain aspects that we would like to expand into, such as Capacity Planning, Network Performance Monitoring, and log analysis. We have coupled Zenoss logs with Splunk for external log management, but would like to start using some of the built-in analysis tools.
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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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    Virtana
    • Monitoring Windows, Unix/Linux, Infra apps, storage, virtualization, converge infra etc..
    • Integrate with other monitoring tools and receive events for aggregation and correlation
    • Integration with ITSM( SNOW) for auto ticket creation
    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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    Virtana
    • It can be tricky to set-up depending on what you want to do.
    • They have their own proprietary way of visualizing metrics, which is clever but does have a slight learning curve.
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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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    Virtana
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Virtana
    Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.
    Incentivized
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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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    Virtana
    We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform Operations team. We have worked closely with Metricly to expand on their cost analysis capabilities, and plan to use them going forward.
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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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    Virtana
    • We're a reseller/Integrator, so this question has a somewhat different meaning to our business. For us, Zenoss Cloud allows us to provide a single Cloud-based monitoring platform that can address virtually all our clients' use cases, dramatically simplifying our training and staffing requirements. Instead of training Engineers on several platforms, including the installation of physical hardware/software, we can focus on a single platform.
    • The faster time-to-deployment and always-on cloud platform is a great fit for DevOps environments and newer software-defined data center platforms. The ability of Zenoss to support these environments solves what has been a major blind spot, slowing adoption of platforms that have been difficult to effectively manage with legacy monitoring platforms.
    • For clients, the ability to consolidate from multiple prem-based tools to a single cloud-based platform is huge. Eliminating multiple licenses and ongoing hardware & administration costs can show a 1-2 year ROI.
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