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PROS

Grafana provides valuable real-time insights into infrastructure health and trends, facilitating efficient capacity planning and optimization.
Grafana features live monitoring and alert capabilities that enhance troubleshooting and productivity.
Grafana integrates well with various tools, offering extensive customization options and compatibility with multiple data sources for superior visualization.
Grafana supports writing queries in different languages and offers an easy installation process, suitable for scalable environments.
Grafana enables effective collaboration through data and dashboard sharing, contributing to improved analysis and operational efficiency.

CONS

Grafana requires more out-of-the-box dashboards for OpenNMS and offers limited reporting types essential for managerial-level reports.
Cluster creation is desired for deployment and scaling, as the existing scaling process is complicated.
The documentation and training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors.
Grafana could improve its alerting system and the automation of daily monitoring reports.
Licensing for Grafana is expensive, with features dependent on the version, and a more flexible model is preferred.
 

Grafana Pros review quotes

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.
NW
DevOps Engineer at Vimeo, LLC
May 28, 2025
The features I appreciate most are the dashboards and the integrations with multiple data sources.
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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.
AR
BI and Analytics Engineer at Sandvine Inc
Jan 10, 2025
I find Grafana beneficial due to its numerous plugins.
Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Re-Start Program Specialist at Orange RDC (Congo)
Nov 5, 2024
Grafana is stable and has great engineers.
SF
Senior Managing Partner at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
May 9, 2024
We like the alert features.
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.
 

Grafana Cons review quotes

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.
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.
Learn what your peers think about Grafana. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
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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.
AR
BI and Analytics Engineer at Sandvine Inc
Jan 10, 2025
The interface is not well-liked by my customers.
Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Re-Start Program Specialist at Orange RDC (Congo)
Nov 5, 2024
All the features are complicated.
SF
Senior Managing Partner at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
May 9, 2024
The solution must provide tutorials and guides.
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.