Grafana Cloud vs. Virtana

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
Virtana
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Virtana delivers enterprise-grade deep hybrid infrastructure observability, enabling organizations to achieve visibility and control across their entire IT estate. The platform unifies monitoring of on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, to transform complex infrastructure management into a strategic advantage. Core Platform Capabilities Deep Infrastructure Observability: · Automated topology discovery and mapping · Real…
$0
Pricing
Grafana CloudVirtana
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
Free
$0
Pro
$5
per month per device
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Grafana CloudVirtana
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsVolume discounts are available (600+ devices / month) A device is any running AWS EC2 or Azure VM evaluated by Virtana Optimize in a given month
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Community Pulse
Grafana CloudVirtana
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.
Virtana
Chose Virtana
We selected Zenoss because we had been using it for years before these other solutions were considered nearly robust enough to potentially be a viable alternative to Zenoss. Our familiarity with the interface and the tool set made it an easy choice for us to continue to …
Chose Virtana
Zenoss not just monitor the Hybrid Cloud, it also perform the Event Management and that gives edge on others
Chose Virtana
We don't have much to say bad about other services. We just found that Metricly was a good fit for us. And their customer support is really really good. So if we get stuck we simply reach out for help which hasn't been very often. We didn't get that kind of support from other …
Chose Virtana
We strongly prefer Metricly for AWS Cost Analysis -- whereas other tools are easier to use on a traditional monitoring basis. To be clear, Merticly's monitoring tools are GREAT, but they require tuning and manual setup that we didn't have the time for on a small Platform …
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User Ratings
Grafana CloudVirtana
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
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8.8
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Usability
9.6
(0 ratings)
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Support Rating
-
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Grafana CloudVirtana
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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Zenoss is one of the most economical low cost monitoring/AIOPS tools available in the market. This goes excellent when complete infra is monitoring by itself however if its receiving the events from other monitoring tool then the Event management uses cases will be limited.
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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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  • The flexibility to monitor almost anything.
  • The graphical interface available for servers and database planning helps to make it easier.
  • Easy to integrate other solutions under zenoss.
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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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  • Support for streaming data is on the roadmap must currently be addressed via a third-party app.
  • For some customers, a hybrid on-prem/cloud model may be a better fit than a pure cloud model. The onsite collectors offer some, but not all, of this functionality.
  • Tighter integration with third-party (AppDynamics, etc) and/or built-in app performance tools.
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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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Support Rating
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Anytime we've had issues they have been very responsive and professional.
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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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We selected Zenoss because we had been using it for years before these other solutions were considered nearly robust enough to potentially be a viable alternative to Zenoss. Our familiarity with the interface and the tool set made it an easy choice for us to continue to upgrade and use the product.
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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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  • We were able to save double-digit percentages on our monthly bill due to cutting back on hardware that was not needed.
  • We save time by not having to run across various dashboards and instead have a central place to monitor our infrastructure.
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