Grafana Reviews

We have a few use cases. We have charts for infrastructure, CPU usage, etc. We have included a lot of metrics for WAFs. We also have some customer metrics and business metrics, such as any number of transactions for a specific action happening on the site. 

It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier.

It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long. 

At the company, they'd been using Grafana since I joined. It has been about three years.

It has been working fine for us.

With our workload, it's working fine. Going by that, I'd rate it a 10 out of 10, but I don't know about the other cases.

I've not contacted them.

I don't know if it's the same, but we were using CloudWatch in AWS.

Honeycomb is also similar to this. With all the metrics and performances, you can build dashboards, but I'm new to it.

Our team has two people who are in charge of that, but I'm not aware of its implementation.  

I don't have much experience with other tools, but for my specific case, it has been working great. I'd rate it a 10 out of 10.

Our primary use case is for insight on CPU, what's happening in namespaces and nodes.

We like the features, it's a basic dashboard.

I'd like to see more in-depth graphs and more AI, alerting and log aggregation.

We've used this solution for two years. 

The solution is stable if you use it separate to Rancher. 

Scalability could be improved. 

Deployment is straightforward and takes a few minutes. It comes with Rancher so you can spin it up quickly. 

We're using the open-source version. 

I use Grafana's multiple dashboards for throughput for real-time analysis of monitoring, checking creds and authentication requests, and monitoring the time between direct services.

Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts.

In order to enable Grafana, you need another tool called Prometheus, which loads data to it. It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus. In the next release, Grafana should include API monitoring.

I've been using Grafana for two years.

Grafana is stable.

Grafana is scalable and can be implemented in multiple environments.

The initial setup is fairly straightforward, and Grafana is easy to configure.

I would give Grafana a rating of seven out of ten.

We use this solution primarily for data monitoring, specifically payment transaction monitoring. For example, we use it to monitor payments passing through our systems, integrate with different parties, and track the metrics of payments. The support team can view all these items on a dashboard to gauge the threshold of payments.

The query patch is the most valuable feature. We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization.

The product could be improved with a feature that provides detailed error messages when we encounter issues. For example, we had a case where there was an error message and we could not decipher what went wrong. Additionally, the product's configuration for saving files could be improved, and more plugins could be provided when using the dashboards.

We have been using this solution for approximately two years as customers. We deploy this solution on-premises.

The solution has been stable for us. We can integrate our single internal sign-on into the solution. 

The solution is scalable and we can add people on without any issues. Additionally, we can integrate our single internal sign-on into the solution. About 40% percent of the engineers in the company are using this solution.

We have not had any experience with customer service and support yet.

Unfortunately, I would not be able to comment on the initial setup as I wasn't involved in the setup process.

Unfortunately, I cannot comment on licensing and pricing costs as I am unaware of the pricing details.

We chose this solution because it met the requirements of visualizing and monitoring to make decisions. We found it had very good industrial usage from the reports we read when Space X launched.

I rate this solution a six out of ten. Nevertheless, we recommend using this solution and advise others to go through the tutorial videos before using it. The solution is good but it could be improved by including features that provide more detailed error messages as well as additional plugin options for the dashboard.

We use this solution for visualizing and dashboards. We also use it for our network operation center. I'm a software development director and we are users of Grafana. 

The alerts feature is very good as is the dashboard visualization. We count our orders and if there's a decrease we send alerts. They are useful. 

The solution lacks event management which affects the DevOps people.

I've been using this solution for eight months. 

We haven't had any stability issues. 

The scalability is sufficient for our needs. 

I'm not involved in licensing but I believe Grafana is a relatively inexpensive solution. 

Our subcontractor has suggested that we move to InsightEye because Grafana only visualizes the dashboards whereas InsightEye is more proficient and has more functionalities. 

I recommend this solution if you're looking for some metrics. I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

Our primary use for this solution is Data Analytics.

This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time.

The most valuable features in this solution are the dashboard, templating, and annotations.

More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS.

Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services.

• Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs.
• Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams.
• Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools (like Zabbix, Nagios, Slack, etc.).

The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards.

No issues.

Currently no, but you will need to use MySQL DB instead of sqlite3 for your production environment.

All support is provided by the community, and the documentation is sufficient to solve somes issues.

No previous solution was used.

It is very simple. Read the documentation!

Only the configuration for LDAP authentication is a bit complex, in case of you are using multiple domains.

Grafana is free and open source.

We did not evaluate other solutions.

Read the documentation before installing. Do a PoC before deploying it into production.

In my company, we regularly use it to monitor the status of our running reports, CPU usage, memory applications, and other relevant metrics.

The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring. Due to this requirement, we faced challenges in fetching details related to endpoint monitoring. We are considering the implementation of better tools.

I have been using this solution for the past two and a half years.

I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company.

I’m not involved with contacting customer service.

The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud.

Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.