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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    Grafana Cloud

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGrafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.

    $0

    Sumo Logic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

    $3

    Per GB Logs

    Pricing
    GeckoboardGrafana CloudSumo Logic
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
    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
    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
    Offerings
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    Free Trial
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    GeckoboardGrafana CloudSumo Logic
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
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    Pixel Perfect reports8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates10.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Grafana Cloud
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    Drill-down analysis8.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
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    Publish to Web10.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
    -
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Grafana Cloud
    -
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    Sumo Logic
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    Multi-User Support (named login)9.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)6.12 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
    -
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    Sumo Logic
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    Responsive Design for Web Access9.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Geckoboard and Grafana Cloud and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Grafana Cloud
    -
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    Sumo Logic
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    REST API10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    -
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    8.7
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    Implementation Rating
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    9.0
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
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    Data Sources
    9.0
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    Professional Services
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    6.2
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    User Testimonials
    GeckoboardGrafana CloudSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
    Incentivized
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    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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    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
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    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
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Cons
    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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    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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    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
    Incentivized
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    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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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
    Incentivized
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    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Geckoboard
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Geckoboard
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Return on Investment
    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
    Incentivized
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    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
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.