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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…

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Grafana for Observability

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 9, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 dat...
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Employee
Grafana10 years of experience

Grafana - easy flexible data-driven and great monitoring tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 9, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Engineer
Grafana6 years of experience

Grafana is your one stop shop for complete O11y

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 17, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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,...
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Director
Grafana10 years of experience

Grafana a full fledge observability platform for all your server and app monitoring needs

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 2, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Grafana to monitor our whole infrastructure of linux servers and node js apps. Since we have brought in the Grafana observability into our organisation, it has saved us...
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Verified user
Engineer
Grafana4 years of experience

Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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 co...
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ANurag Tamrakar
Engineer - Engineering
Software Engineer - DevOps
Precisely | Trust in Data
Grafana3 years of experience
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Pricing

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Grafana Cloud - Pro

$8

Cloud
per month up to 1 active user

Grafana Cloud - Free

Free

Cloud
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users

Grafana Cloud - Advanced

Volume Discounts

Cloud
custom data usage custom active users

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://grafana.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Grafana v5.0 Alpha Preview

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Grafana 7.0 feature: auto grid layout

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Monitoring Jenkins with Grafana and Prometheus

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Grafana: Open Source Metrics Dashboard

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Guide to Grafana 101: Getting Started With Alerts

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.2
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.9
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.5
Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.4
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is Grafana?

Grafana Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Ubuntu and Debian(ARM64), Docker
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Grafana starts at $0.

Reviewers rate Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Grafana are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2021
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ANurag Tamrakar
Software Engineer - DevOps
Precisely | Trust in Data (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
3 years of experience
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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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are looking for a tool that can visualize metrics coming from data sources, create widgets, dashboards, and send alerts on collaboration channels when a threshold is breached then in that case Grafana is a GoTo tool; but if you are looking for analyzing logs, Grafana can not do this you will have to with Kibana or any other log analysis tool [in my opinion].
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
N/A
N/A
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
N/A
N/A
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
N/A
N/A
Predictive Analytics
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Customizable dashboards
90%
9.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
N/A
N/A
Drill-down analysis
N/A
N/A
Formatting capabilities
N/A
N/A
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
N/A
Report sharing and collaboration
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
N/A
N/A
Publish to Web
N/A
N/A
Publish to PDF
N/A
N/A
Report Versioning
N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling
N/A
N/A
Delivery to Remote Servers
N/A
N/A
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

Visualize all the things

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 07, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Banking Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My company started using it for just a single department, the systems engineering team. We have now built it out where it benefits other departments, so it is used by a large percentage of Operations. Grafana helps to visualize metrics so we have a better idea of what is happening within our environment and areas of improvement.
Pros
  • Stunning dashboards
  • Versatile data sources
Cons
  • Functions to customize values
  • Improved user experience
Likelihood to Recommend
We use the free version of Grafana and it handles everything we need for now, we will likely be switching to the paid version at some point. Grafana also offers a hosted instance that helps users get off the ground sooner. There is a definite learning curve to creating dashboards and knowing data sources available to the user.
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
90%
9.0
Predictive Analytics
90%
9.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
70%
7.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
77.5%
7.8
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
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
62%
6.2
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
Return on Investment
  • Management team is able to see into our environment.
  • Pin point issues where problems might arise.
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
Prometheus, Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View)

Grafana for Observability

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 09, 2025
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
10 years of experience
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
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.
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (4)
80%
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Predictive Analytics
80%
8.0
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
80%
8.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
80%
8.0
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
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
80%
8.0
Publish to Web
80%
8.0
Publish to PDF
80%
8.0
Report Versioning
80%
8.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
80%
8.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • Open source
  • Large support community
  • New features added all the time
Usability
9
Grafana has created a standard and best practices for other applications to follow and catch up with. It's contribution to the observability and visualization community has tremendous. I look forward to seeing where Grafana will go with the added features of log management, on call, and incident tickets as well.
Alternatives Considered

Grafana is your one stop shop for complete O11y

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 17, 2025
Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Retail Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
10 years of experience
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
Likelihood to Recommend
If I was starting over on an Observability platform, Grafana would be my number 1 choice due to the flexibility and ability to act as a single platform either on its own or combining multiple data sources.

The trick however, is that it can be fairly complex to learn and setup, so time is needed to make it a successful implementation. There is a level of cognitive load required.
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (4)
77.5%
7.8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
90%
9.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
90%
9.0
Predictive Analytics
70%
7.0
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
60%
6.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
60%
6.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
67.5%
6.8
Drill-down analysis
60%
6.0
Formatting capabilities
80%
8.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
50%
5.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
84%
8.4
Publish to Web
70%
7.0
Publish to PDF
90%
9.0
Report Versioning
90%
9.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
80%
8.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
90%
9.0
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
10
It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources.
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.
Other Software Used

Grafana - easy flexible data-driven and great monitoring tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 09, 2025
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
6 years of experience
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
Likelihood to Recommend
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
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (4)
97.5%
9.8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
90%
9.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
100%
10.0
Predictive Analytics
100%
10.0
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
100%
10.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
90%
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
90%
9.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
67.5%
6.8
Drill-down analysis
90%
9.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
90%
9.0
Report sharing and collaboration
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
88%
8.8
Publish to Web
90%
9.0
Publish to PDF
90%
9.0
Report Versioning
80%
8.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
90%
9.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
90%
9.0
Return on Investment
  • Improve system visibility and monitoring
  • Improved reducing TAT in case of critical issues
  • Integration advancement
Usability
10
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
Alternatives Considered
Easy to use
Easy to configure
Cost efficient
Better visibility and learning curve
Expertise in the organization to setup and configure and everyone knows Grafana, so i would say it is very popular monitoring tool.
Great in UI and experience of UX, as very impressive and taken care of all the minor details
Other Software Used
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