Grafana vs. Humio Log Management

Grafana is a one stop solution for all application monitoring needs. In our organisation, we use nodeJs. We run it using pm2. Since we didn't use Grafana it was hard for us to know if an app has stopped working unless we find it ourselves because our other app components were failing, or someone called us up and told about the situation. We were already using Grafana for monitoring our Ubuntu servers, but we hadn't had set it up for our app monitoring. Somehow we decided to monitor our nodeJs app with Grafana. It's a really good decision we made. We used Grafana nodeJs module "prom-client" for our node app which brought us relief from app failing situations. Since we have implemented Grafana for our Node app, it has helped us to monitor every health aspect of our node app. Now we have set up alerts based on heap-memory, so when heap memory goes beyond a set threshold we get notified and take the right steps ultimately saving our app from crashing and of course from losing business and reputation.

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Humio Log Management software has helped a lot in our organisation by automatically streaming all deployment, forms and other memos without needing additional configuration at the application level. It makes parsing logs a lot easier as we can enter our custom parsing rules and structures and conditions. Once the logs are parsed it helps sort and filter data which helps a lot and saves time while working on specific cases and data.

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• 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).

• Log aggregation
• Log management and sorting
• Hardcore query language

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• Functions to customize values
• Improved user experience

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• The UI is very slow and needs lot of improvement
• It does not have premade parses for syslog data
• Scripting challenged users may face many difficulties

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Grafana has a direct plugin to Icinga monitoring solution and allowed for easy configuration for us. At the time of implementation, other services did not have such an integration. As we already had a very customized and heavily introduced monitoring solution in place, we needed settings that could plug into the system quickly and efficiently. This was the case with Grafana and allowed us to have all the integrations we needed with services such as Icinga

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I have not used products such as Humio Log Management management before

Incentivized

• Helps us to keep our application and server up all time
• Dashboards are easy to share with others

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• It helps a lot by saving time while finding specific log data thanks to the sort and filter feature
• It helps save time while parsing logs and arranging them
• It is cheaper than other similar softwares in the market and hence is affordable for organizations such as mine

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