Grafana vs. OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.
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OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
OSIsoft developed the PI System, a data integration and analytics platform designed to support plant and utilities with operational intelligence and analytics. OSIsoft was acquired by AVEVA in March 2021, and is now an AVEVA brand and solution.N/A
Pricing
GrafanaOSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
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
GrafanaOSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
GrafanaOSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
Top Pros
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Features
GrafanaOSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.0
5 Ratings
5% below category average
OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
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Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.3
4 Ratings
9% below category average
OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
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Ratings
Drill-down analysis6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.7
4 Ratings
3% above category average
OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
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Ratings
Publish to Web7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.7
4 Ratings
6% below category average
OSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
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Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.82 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
GrafanaOSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GrafanaOSIsoft PI System, from AVEVA
Likelihood to Recommend
Grafana Labs
If I was starting over on an Observability platform, Grafana would be my number 1 choice due to the flexibility and ability to act as a single platform either on its own or combining multiple data sources. The trick however, is that it can be fairly complex to learn and setup, so time is needed to make it a successful implementation. There is a level of cognitive load required
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AVEVA
If you have many different DCSs or PLCs in your manufacturing plant, OSIsoft PI System does the job quite well to integrate all different types of sources and data. We have Yokogawa, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, and Azbil DCS and PLC. Connecting them is not a problem.
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Pros
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
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AVEVA
  • Ability to integrate with many 3rd-party systems, 70 sources as per their marketing claims
  • Great for big data management
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Cons
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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AVEVA
  • Missing some features and has some bugs
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Usability
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
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AVEVA
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Support Rating
Grafana Labs
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AVEVA
Good local support. The only issue is that there are not many system integrators that are well versed with OSIsoft. The implementation is also very costly.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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AVEVA
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Return on Investment
Grafana Labs
  • Time-consuming reports reduced
  • Spotting trends in services
  • Preventive maintenance
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AVEVA
  • Real-time data
  • We don't require constant updates during crisis from a technician who usually will update to BCP team via WhatsApp.
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