Grafana Cloud vs. Jaspersoft Community Edition

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Grafana 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.
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Jaspersoft Community Edition is a free product that offers embeddable pixel-perfect reports for Java apps and small workgroups.N/A
Pricing
Grafana CloudJaspersoft Community Edition
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Grafana CloudJaspersoft Community Edition
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Grafana CloudJaspersoft Community Edition
Considered Both Products
Grafana Cloud
Chose Grafana Cloud
Easy to use
Easy to configure
Cost efficient
Chose Grafana Cloud
Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't …
Chose Grafana Cloud
Grafana gives more flexibility to explore its features. A new user can explore experiment and work with free Grafana account and find if it is suitable for them.Other platforms don't have the features in their freemium version that Grafana has. It lets us try features of …
Chose Grafana Cloud
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 …
Chose Grafana Cloud
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.
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
FoxPro is a deprecated product and can no longer be downloaded or purchased. While it was a great report development tool, it is no longer a viable solution. While we do use Business Objects in very specific and limited implementations and for specific users, we find that …
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
My company has some cooperation with TIBCO, so they want to push Jaspersoft.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
I cannot fairly answer this questions and I have not used other reporting tools. Other reporting tools seem to look like they are great via sales pitches and video previews etc. At end of the day, they struggle with the same issues that Jasper faces. Or they might have solved …
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I do not have solid knowledge on other products to compare them with Jaspersoft
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Our initial selection was based on the understanding of this product to be able to match up against other enterprise BI tools. However, the difficulty with the reseller and the technical issues with the RBAC make this an easy choice to eliminate against other products.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Pentaho and Cognos have been used and evaluated. Jaspersoft is similar to Pentaho, but has better support forums to answer questions. Cognos is slightly more intuitive, but at a higher licensing cost.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Cost and ease of use. We ultimately decided to use Jaspersoft because we didn't need to do anything complicated. At the time we were looking into Microsoft Business Intelligence. While we saw Microsoft BI having actual better reporting and tools, we choose to use Jaspersoft …
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Spotfire - Better support. More intuitive. Works with our databases.
Tableau - great support. Very simple and intuitive. Works with our databases!
Infor ION - Really expensive. Works well with their products. A lot of work with other products.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
At the moment of evaluation, it looked like Jasper would be able to cope with our data model. This was achieved with product customization. Visualizations are largely the same.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
TIBCO Jaspersoft was chosen because it fitted our software cloud architecture the best and at a reasonable cost. The rest didn't tick all the boxes at the time or were far too expensive. However, the likes of Power BI seem to be a contender now.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
We have explored other reporting tools like IBM Cognos, Tableau, SQL Reporting, and Qlik along with TIBCO Spotfire (in-memory). FInally looking at all options, features, degree of flexibility, and then license cost, we decided to go with TIBCO Jaspersoft.

The expressions and …
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
[TIBCO Jaspersoft is] Quicker, clearer and allows for more professional looking reports.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Usage of a JRS report is vastly superior to xls usage.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
In the past we have used Cognos. Jaspersoft was a better fit for us at this time.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Tableau and Qlikview reporting probably have better end-user experiences but can't be easily embedded in a Web app. Microsoft BI suite needs nearly a full stack of the latest versions of SQL Server, Excel and Sharepoint which an ISV can't assume its customers have. Other …
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
We are using both of them. Elasticsearch is still in early stage and very expensive.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Tableau was way, way more expensive and wasn't able to be embedded and white labeled, so we didn't go with them. I think Tableau is stronger on the visualization and predictive side... but overall... if you can't afford them, who cares?
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Crystal reports is very expensive and does not integrate well with java based servers. Jasper also provides community edition, if we every want to downgrade the use, we always have the option of eliminating the server and using the reports as they are. Jasper also give you the …
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
SSRS: seems to be more performant at this point but we're still trying to figure it out
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
They each of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. We selected TIBCO for its pixel perfect reporting.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Jasper seemed to be a little behind in features and usability, but had better pricing.
Chose Jaspersoft Community Edition
Of course, there are challenges in the evolution of Jasper and it may take some time to become a stable product. With Jasper 6.4 the stability is improvised a lot compared to previous versions(5.5). But I would recommend Jasper to any team for the following reasons.
Features
Grafana CloudJaspersoft Community Edition
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
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Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
Ratings
13% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
-
Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
Ratings
15% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
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Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.4
Ratings
14% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
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Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
Ratings
15% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
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Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
Ratings
9% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
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Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.3
Ratings
19% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Grafana Cloud
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Ratings
Jaspersoft Community Edition
9.5
Ratings
21% above category average
REST API00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Grafana CloudJaspersoft Community Edition
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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5.8
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Usability
9.6
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9.0
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Support Rating
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Grafana CloudJaspersoft Community Edition
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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TIBCO Jaspersoft Community Edition is very powerful platform that has enhanced smooth running of workflows across our organization. The system operation has greatly created positive development infrastructure in our company due to excellent planning from the data analytics. The cost running this product is low as compared to similar software and easy to learn how it works. It provides comprehensive reports that affect each department and offers solution to most challenges affecting our systems.
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Pros
  • 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
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  • Custom design reports in Jaspersoft Studio. There is a lot of flexibility to customize reports. You can create easy reports in a quick time frame or complex report in a bit more time.
  • The company does not need a 100% developer to develop reports. Someone with some level of developer experience could use Jasper Studio
  • Jasper also provides a stand-alone web server to deploy your reports. This opens up a lot of Jaspersoft Studio files.
  • There is a lot of time and effort put into the software. Years of input that improved all levels of the applications. Jasperstudio, Jasperserver, a manual, the community, etc.
  • Flexibility is awesome, you can do almost anything. Having well-rounded REST API or you can use the Java Studio.
  • There is a lot out of the box functionality. Scheduler, stand-alone reports, report output formats, logging settings, customization of GUI to a degree, permissions, roles, and user setup Studio, etc.
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Cons
  • Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners
  • Notification alert message templates need to be simplified
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  • Repository interface is a flat structure. Folder or other structure would be best for numerous reports for several different departments.
  • Should come fully equipped with all available properties for High Charts
  • Better user guides that includes more information about configurations for styles, conditions, etc. that aren't covered in the guide.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Even though there are challenges with Architecture, sizing and other areas with Jaspersoft provided that Jaspersoft comes up with the right set of innovation, performance, scalability, and documentation in future it will be great expansion (win-win) situation for the clients and as well as Jaspersoft.
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Usability
Great usage in terms of monitoring of any application from backend to frontend and even any AWS resource via cloud watch and other connectors. Easy to use and configure personalised dash boarding and alerting features. Cost efficient and easy to setup and run, no mazor scaling challenges in terms of managing and maintaining the stack, easy to configure via Prometheus, influx and other connectors
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The overall performance of this platform has been excellent. It is easy to work with the user interface. Creation of digital content and publishing on our social media platforms during marketing has been easy. Running our applications and upgrading our system to meet international standards has been successful. The user dashboard displays reports and performance of all departments effectively.
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Support Rating
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We have only had a couple of tickets to be open while using Jaspersoft. Each time we have a very prompte responses that would meet our expectations. We always felt that our issues were being address in a timely manner
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Online Training
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While the training was somewhat beneficial, a lot of what was taught to us was what we managed to figure out in the weeks prior. It did provide some useful tips and reference material, but overall something more tailored to our requirements would've been better.
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Implementation Rating
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New releases can be very buggy, also lacking when it comes to standard time zones and formats that are outside the US. As a company we never feel comfortable implementing a new release for at least 3-6 months due to errors that are found
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Alternatives Considered
Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't offer nearly as much flexibility. The other thing I like about Grafana is their storage usage is much lower compared to similar tools and competitors
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Crystal reports is very expensive and does not integrate well with java based servers. Jasper also provides community edition, if we every want to downgrade the use, we always have the option of eliminating the server and using the reports as they are. Jasper also give you the opportunity to build BI on case by base basis including Dashboards.
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Return on Investment
  • It has kicked out some of our paid monitoring and visualization tools.
  • Now Monitoring, Visualization and Alerting is being done in a single platform.
  • It made monitoring and visualization very easy for us.
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  • Jaspersoft Community Edition has not had any significant impact on our ROI as we have purchased the commercial edition of the product.
  • The only impact on ROI is that when we bring on new developers, he or she can begin work using the community edition while awaiting the installation of the commercial edition.
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