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Grafana

Score8.6 out of 10

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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 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Grafana has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 158 ratings of Grafana's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

    Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Publish to PDF

    Category average: 8.7

  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

    Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Drill-down analysis

    Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 6.8

Reviews

What users are saying about Grafana.
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Grafana for Observability

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Grafana imis a tool like many others but one of the most flexible and widely used tools. Solvable business problems using this include visualization of ticket and incident data. Observability of server processes and services from just about any platform.

Scope of use includes showing the SLOs and SLIs for infrastructure and business organizations. Team metrics. And data can be connected to MS teams to grab data through automation and workflows.

Pros

  • Metrics
  • Time visualization
  • Graphs
  • Data sorting
  • Data visualization.

Cons

  • Integrations
  • Load times
  • Configuration

Return on Investment

  • Open source
  • Large support community
  • New features added all the time

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Grafana - easy flexible data-driven and great monitoring tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For visibility into application monitoring and alerting (both frontend and backend), as well as AWS service monitoring and alerting, Grafana is excellent for real-time metric statistics and integrates seamlessly with the TIG stack. We are a B2C product, and for all issues related to debugging and alerting, Grafana is working like a charm and significantly reducing the turnaround time (TAT) during crises

Pros

  • Monitoring of both frontend and backend application
  • Alerting of critial issues
  • Stats monitoring for product

Cons

  • Alerting of baseline in case of deviate baseline
  • Lack of data transformation
  • nil

Return on Investment

  • Improve system visibility and monitoring
  • Improved reducing TAT in case of critical issues
  • Integration advancement

Usability

Alternatives Considered

New Relic

Other Software Used

OpsGenie, Slack, Graylog

Grafana is your one stop shop for complete O11y

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Grafana is a great tool for us as a single pane of glass for all Data Sources that generate metrics. We have created wonderful dashboards and graphs around application health, response time, error rates, error and access codes, and so on. Outside of tech specific insights, it can be used to generate a UI for many different non-technical areas, such as sales data, metrics, and trending.

The amount of plugins available to Grafana either directly or indirectly, allows unlimited flexibility in Data visualization.

Pros

  • Data Visualization
  • Graphing
  • Alerting
  • Trending

Cons

  • Needs more in-depth alerting capabilities
  • Better anomaly detection
  • Easier ability to query using a common schema

Return on Investment

  • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
  • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
  • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer

Usability

Alternatives Considered

New Relic, Elasticsearch, Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise

Other Software Used

Elasticsearch, New Relic, Splunk Cloud

Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool

ANurag TamrakarView profile
Software Engineer - DevOps in Engineering at Precisely | Trust in Data (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using Grafana for visualizing Prometheus metrics which comes from our Kubernetes clusters and other Application and Enterprise tools servers and sending alerts on our collaboration channels whenever a metric is breeching defined threshold. There are a lot of paid tools [that] are available in the market, but nothing is better than Grafana.

Pros

  • 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).

Cons

  • 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.

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.

Alternatives Considered

Kibana and Foglight

Grafana breaks down the information from logs of services and speeds up the reporting process

Incentivized
Matthew GoodhallView profile
infastructure consultant in Information Technology at Vetasi Limited (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Graphing lots of data
  • Simplicity of setup
  • Readability of logs

Cons

  • Configuration plugins
  • Automation of setups
  • Custom exports

Return on Investment

  • Time-consuming reports reduced
  • Spotting trends in services
  • Preventive maintenance

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Other Software Used

Nmap, Untangle NG Firewall, Docker