#1 most frequent
United States of America
33.8%12,325 installations of 36,507
What is Grafana?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Customizable dashboards
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
Category average: 8.7
Publish to PDF
Category average: 8.9
Report Versioning
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
Category average: 8.3
Areas for Improvement
Drill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Category average: 8.7
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Category average: 6.2
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
Category average: 6.5
Who Buys & Uses Grafana
#2 most frequent
Brazil
10.6%3,854 installations of 36,507
#3 most frequent
India
8.1%2,959 installations of 36,507
Grafana for Observability
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Grafana imis a tool like many others but one of the most flexible and widely used tools. Solvable business problems using this include visualization of ticket and incident data. Observability of server processes and services from just about any platform.
Scope of use includes showing the SLOs and SLIs for infrastructure and business organizations. Team metrics. And data can be connected to MS teams to grab data through automation and workflows.
Scope of use includes showing the SLOs and SLIs for infrastructure and business organizations. Team metrics. And data can be connected to MS teams to grab data through automation and workflows.
Pros
- Metrics
- Time visualization
- Graphs
- Data sorting
- Data visualization.
Cons
- Integrations
- Load times
- Configuration
Return on Investment
- Open source
- Large support community
- New features added all the time
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Datadog
Grafana is your one stop shop for complete O11y
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Grafana is a great tool for us as a single pane of glass for all Data Sources that generate metrics. We have created wonderful dashboards and graphs around application health, response time, error rates, error and access codes, and so on. Outside of tech specific insights, it can be used to generate a UI for many different non-technical areas, such as sales data, metrics, and trending.
The amount of plugins available to Grafana either directly or indirectly, allows unlimited flexibility in Data visualization.
The amount of plugins available to Grafana either directly or indirectly, allows unlimited flexibility in Data visualization.
Pros
- Data Visualization
- Graphing
- Alerting
- Trending
Cons
- Needs more in-depth alerting capabilities
- Better anomaly detection
- Easier ability to query using a common schema
Return on Investment
- 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
Usability
Alternatives Considered
New Relic, Elasticsearch, Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise
Other Software Used
Elasticsearch, New Relic, Splunk Cloud
Grafana - easy flexible data-driven and great monitoring tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
For visibility into application monitoring and alerting (both frontend and backend), as well as AWS service monitoring and alerting, Grafana is excellent for real-time metric statistics and integrates seamlessly with the TIG stack. We are a B2C product, and for all issues related to debugging and alerting, Grafana is working like a charm and significantly reducing the turnaround time (TAT) during crises
Pros
- Monitoring of both frontend and backend application
- Alerting of critial issues
- Stats monitoring for product
Cons
- Alerting of baseline in case of deviate baseline
- Lack of data transformation
- nil
Return on Investment
- Improve system visibility and monitoring
- Improved reducing TAT in case of critical issues
- Integration advancement
Usability
Alternatives Considered
New Relic
Other Software Used
OpsGenie, Slack, Graylog
Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We're using Grafana for visualizing Prometheus metrics which comes from our Kubernetes clusters and other Application and Enterprise tools servers and sending alerts on our collaboration channels whenever a metric is breeching defined threshold. There are a lot of paid tools [that] are available in the market, but nothing is better than Grafana.
Pros
- It visualizes metrics very well coming from any well known data source.
- It sends alerts to collaboration channels when a threshold is breeched.
- Graphs and dashboards are portable (Graph-as-a-Code).
Cons
- 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.
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.
Alternatives Considered
Kibana and Foglight
Grafana breaks down the information from logs of services and speeds up the reporting process
Pros
- Graphing lots of data
- Simplicity of setup
- Readability of logs
Cons
- Configuration plugins
- Automation of setups
- Custom exports
Return on Investment
- Time-consuming reports reduced
- Spotting trends in services
- Preventive maintenance
Alternatives Considered
Datadog
Other Software Used
Nmap, Untangle NG Firewall, Docker