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PROS

Grafana offers easy integration with multiple data sources and APIs, enhancing data processing and visualization capabilities.
It improves analysis capabilities and collaboration between IT and business services through centralized dashboards and instant alerts.
Grafana provides real-time infrastructure insights and improves troubleshooting and incident response through powerful alerting features.
Its adaptability and easy scalability make it a top choice for microservices development and capacity planning.
Grafana democratizes data within organizations and reduces manual monitoring efforts, delivering a strong return on investment.

CONS

Security needs improvement, including the ability to add permissions on dashboards.
Grafana requires better documentation and training, especially for Prometheus usage.
Dashboard performance is affected when combining multiple dashboards into one.
The licensing model is expensive, with some features requiring payment depending on the version.
Alert configuration is not intuitive for new users.
 

Grafana Pros review quotes

Vitthal Gole - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at AIQOD
Jul 29, 2026
Grafana has delivered a strong return on investment by reducing troubleshooting time, improving incident response, and minimizing manual monitoring efforts through centralized dashboards and automated alerts.
BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Jan 10, 2026
Grafana has positively impacted our organization by democratizing data within our company.
OC
DevOps Team Lead at Kadabra
May 28, 2025
Grafana saves us hours compared to DataDog.
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NW
DevOps Engineer at Vimeo, LLC
May 28, 2025
The features I appreciate most are the dashboards and the integrations with multiple data sources.
reviewer1955814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Engineering at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
May 13, 2025
Grafana integrates with some of the tools we've chosen beforehand, and while I'm not the right person to elaborate on this since I'm more focused on managing big teams, the teams working with it seem happy.
AR
Sr. DevOps at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 28, 2025
The main benefits I have seen from using Grafana in my day-to-day activities is the visualization of the metrics, specifically Dora Metrics.
Vikash-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Aplication Architect at Amazon
Nov 28, 2024
Grafana provides a user-friendly interface for viewing infrastructure metrics through dashboards.
Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Re-Start Program Specialist at Orange RDC (Congo)
Nov 5, 2024
Grafana is stable and has great engineers.
Prashant-Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Aug 30, 2023
The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that.
SandeepSrirangam - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at Project44
Jun 21, 2023
Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature.
 

Grafana Cons review quotes

Vitthal Gole - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at AIQOD
Jul 29, 2026
For improving Grafana, the alert configuration could be more intuitive for new users.
BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Jan 10, 2026
I find that the alerting UI in Grafana can be complex for new users.
OC
DevOps Team Lead at Kadabra
May 28, 2025
I would give it a ten if it were much simpler for users who just want to get a simple objective in Grafana and are not experienced with technical configuration.
Learn what your peers think about Grafana. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2026.
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NW
DevOps Engineer at Vimeo, LLC
May 28, 2025
Regarding joining between queries, merging between two queries that give the same information could be simple, and there are some ways to do that, but if there was something even easier, it would be great.
reviewer1955814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Engineering at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
May 13, 2025
I rate Grafana a six out of ten.
AR
Sr. DevOps at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 28, 2025
In assessing Grafana's scalability, we started noticing logs missing or metrics not syncing in time, which indicated a bottleneck that we had to address by updating the infrastructure.
Vikash-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Aplication Architect at Amazon
Nov 28, 2024
Grafana could consider building its own metrics system to eliminate the reliance on other tools like Prometheus, providing a one-stop solution.
Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Re-Start Program Specialist at Orange RDC (Congo)
Nov 5, 2024
The features are complicated and not intuitive.
Prashant-Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Aug 30, 2023
I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors.
SandeepSrirangam - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at Project44
Jun 21, 2023
Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve.