Grafana vs. Splunk Log Observer

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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Great for organizations that need to centralize different types of logging across integration, qa, sandbox and production environments. Would be less impactful for organizations that don't have complex logging needs.

• 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).

• Providing in-depth insights
• A related content feature which really helps us to figure out which service is breaking the infrastructure.
• The Log explorer which helps us to explore the entire log and pin point the errors/issues.
• Fast and powerful log investigation

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• Functions to customize values
• Improved user experience

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• Integrating the system with Slack channels
• Saving the logs in different cloud provider
• Viewing the logs at more fine grained level based on user roles and permissions

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I'm a Splunk specialist, and I'm involved in its use and improvement.

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It gives access to data features for every level of users: from managers and executives to Analysts, each one with the correct level of observation and analysis.

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Splunk support is very quick and efficient. Pre-sale specialists are very skilled and available.

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Follow a training before starting.

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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 had not considered other products because Splunk Log Observer was in use in my company before I started working there.

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

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• Significantly reduced the MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), which in turn has improved the end-user experience tremendously.
• Meets compliance requirements of security policies, audit, regulation, and forensics.
• Helps us to track/manage the resource usage on our cloud instances which has a direct implication on the recurring cost.

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