Grafana vs. Redash

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana
Score 8.6 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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Redash
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Redash is a data visualization tool designed to allow users to connect and query any data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with a company. Databricks acquired Redash in June 2020.N/A
Pricing
GrafanaRedash
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
GrafanaRedash
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
GrafanaRedash
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.0
4 Ratings
5% below category average
Redash
6.4
4 Ratings
27% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.14 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.94 Ratings6.74 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.04 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.2
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Redash
5.7
4 Ratings
34% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings6.74 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.03 Ratings3.03 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.03 Ratings7.84 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
9.2
3 Ratings
10% above category average
Redash
5.5
4 Ratings
41% below category average
Publish to Web9.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.03 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Report Versioning9.03 Ratings5.63 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.03 Ratings2.93 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers10.03 Ratings4.03 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.5
3 Ratings
9% below category average
Redash
6.4
4 Ratings
24% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.03 Ratings6.94 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.03 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.03 Ratings4.33 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(4 ratings)
7.6
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
GrafanaRedash
Likelihood to Recommend
Grafana Labs
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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Databricks
Redash is well suited to situations where metrics are tracked on daily, weekly and monthly basis. Alerts can be set to emails which helps stakeholders to monitor performance on a frequent basis. It is less appropriate for cases where only dashboards are needed. Redash comes into picture where individuals can query and check data at the same time.
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Pros
Grafana Labs
  • 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).
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Databricks
  • Great Query Editor with Autocomplete feature
  • Very easy to setup and quickly connect to variety of data sources
  • Quick Dashboards with Simple UI which can be easily shareable
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Cons
Grafana Labs
  • Functions to customize values
  • Improved user experience
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Databricks
  • You need to have a good command over SQL to use Redash but if there could be some way where people can just pull data and do slice dice.
  • It would be nice to have an excel kind of filters when all data is fetched.
  • Some things like easy to customise the column names.
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Alternatives Considered
Grafana Labs
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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Databricks
I was not a part of the decision-making team who decided to go with Redash.
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Return on Investment
Grafana Labs
  • Helps us to keep our application and server up all time
  • Dashboards are easy to share with others
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Databricks
  • Cost effective
  • One tool for multiple purpose
  • Easy access provision
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