Overview
What is Grafana?
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…
Grafana a full fledge observability platform for all your server and app monitoring needs
Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool
Grafana breaks down the information from logs of services and speeds up the reporting process
Visualize all the things
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Grafana v5.0 Alpha Preview
Grafana 7.0 feature: auto grid layout
Monitoring Jenkins with Grafana and Prometheus
Grafana: Open Source Metrics Dashboard
Guide to Grafana 101: Getting Started With Alerts
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is Grafana?
Grafana Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64), Docker |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews and Ratings
(95)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
- Recommendations
Grafana has been widely praised by users for its ability to visualize graphs and data collected from millions of customers. It has become an essential tool for a leading set top box provider in Europe. Users have found Grafana particularly valuable in showcasing the impact of real-world conditions on resources, such as changes in system resources during spikes in web traffic. Additionally, Grafana's capability to gather metrics on all infrastructure and app levels in one place has proven beneficial for monitoring microservices. It has successfully addressed the issue of inadequate monitoring and alerting capabilities in AWS Cloudwatch by providing customizable graphs and alerts. The ability to offer custom PostgreSQL graphing dashboards has also enhanced monitoring options for customers. Grafana's quick and effective visualization of critical systems' status and usage, both on premises and in the cloud, enables faster issue response.
Users have made several recommendations for Grafana based on their experiences. First, they suggest testing the application with a proof of concept to ensure it meets specific requirements and can be effectively integrated with other applications. This allows users to assess its compatibility and functionality before fully implementing it. Second, reviewers recommend using internal alerts for simple use cases. This feature helps to track and monitor application infrastructure efficiently, allowing users to receive timely notifications and take necessary actions. Third, customers emphasize the importance of setting up proper authentication when using Grafana. This ensures the security of data and access control, preventing unauthorized individuals from accessing sensitive information. Additionally, users advise seeking assistance from technical staff when implementing Grafana to tap into its full potential. Their guidance can help optimize the software's capabilities and provide better insights into the application infrastructure. Overall, these recommendations highlight the versatility of Grafana as a monitoring tool and emphasize the significance of thorough testing, utilizing internal alerts, enforcing proper authentication measures, and leveraging technical expertise for optimal usage.
Reviews
(1-4 of 4)Grafana a full fledge observability platform for all your server and app monitoring needs
- 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
- Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners
- Notification alert message templates need to be simplified
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 70%7.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 80%8.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 70%7.0
- Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- 80%8.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 70%7.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 70%7.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 80%8.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 80%8.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 80%8.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 90%9.0
- Publish to Web
- 90%9.0
- Publish to PDF
- 90%9.0
- Report Versioning
- 90%9.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 90%9.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- 100%10.0
- Helps us to keep our application and server up all time
- Dashboards are easy to share with others
Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool
- 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).
- 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.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- N/AN/A
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- N/AN/A
- Predictive Analytics
- N/AN/A
- Customizable dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 80%8.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 80%8.0
- Drill-down analysis
- N/AN/A
- Formatting capabilities
- N/AN/A
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- N/AN/A
- Report sharing and collaboration
- N/AN/A
- Publish to Web
- N/AN/A
- Publish to PDF
- N/AN/A
- Report Versioning
- N/AN/A
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- N/AN/A
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- N/AN/A
- 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.
Grafana breaks down the information from logs of services and speeds up the reporting process
- Graphing lots of data
- Simplicity of setup
- Readability of logs
- Configuration plugins
- Automation of setups
- Custom exports
It is well suited as part of a maintenance and support suite for teams that manage multiple servers or applications. That is the case with us. It helps with noticing trends for systems, such as high usage times, etc. However when combined with alerting services, it can also warn of a potential issue before it occurs.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 60%6.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 80%8.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 30%3.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 70%7.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 80%8.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 80%8.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 80%8.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 50%5.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 80%8.0
- Publish to Web
- 80%8.0
- Publish to PDF
- 70%7.0
- Report Versioning
- 60%6.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 60%6.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- 80%8.0
- Time-consuming reports reduced
- Spotting trends in services
- Preventive maintenance
Visualize all the things
- Stunning dashboards
- Versatile data sources
- Functions to customize values
- Improved user experience
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 80%8.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 90%9.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 90%9.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 80%8.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 70%7.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 80%8.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 80%8.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 70%7.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 80%8.0
- Publish to Web
- 50%5.0
- Publish to PDF
- 50%5.0
- Report Versioning
- 70%7.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 60%6.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- 80%8.0
- Management team is able to see into our environment.
- Pin point issues where problems might arise.