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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…

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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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Verified user
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

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 4, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Grafana is being used as part of our monitoring solution alongside services such as Icinga. It is used to graph the uptime as well as sessions etc. This is then exported as pa...
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Matthew Goodhall
Professional - Information Technology
infastructure consultant
Vetasi Limited
Grafana2 years of experience

Visualize all the things

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 7, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Verified user
Engineer
Grafana1 year 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
Avg 8.3

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

7.2
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.7
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.

7.7
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 Customizable dashboards highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Grafana are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

Community Insights

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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.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 02, 2023
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 in many ways from going apps down to server crashing. We have used its ML feature to learn about he patterns in spikes of our server and apps health. One of the best things that we are grateful for using Grafana is its customer service almost as quickly as one can imagine which get us helps whenever we are in a situation. Grafana's alerting system is another great feature that anyone who uses Grafana knows what I am talking about. Its metrics are accurate, and can be retrieve for last 60 days. I also love how Grafana keeps updating its features. Grafana can be a great choice for anyone who is looking for a better observability platform. I use it almost everyday and there is always something new that you find on Grafana which is going to make your application monitoring better than before. When you sign up for free Grafana Cloud Online, you get unlimited number of dashboards to create, beautiful and informative ones, you get 50 GB of logs and 10 K metrics 50 GB of traces, and in my opinion that is more than enough to experience how effective and amazing a service Grafana is.
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
Cons
  • Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners
  • Notification alert message templates need to be simplified
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (4)
75%
7.5
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
BI Standard Reporting (3)
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
70%
7.0
Pixel Perfect reports
70%
7.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
82.5%
8.3
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
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
92%
9.2
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
Return on Investment
  • Helps us to keep our application and server up all time
  • Dashboards are easy to share with others
Alternatives Considered
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 Grafana that other platforms like New Relic wants you to buy their pro version first. Grafana is also less expensive to operate in the long run. It is just 8$ per user to access its full functionality whereas New Relic offers the less features and is also not going to let you know its pricing unless you contact them through a form.
Other Software Used

Grafana: A powerful opensource Monitoring Visualization tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2021
AT
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

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 04, 2021
MG
Matthew Goodhall
infastructure consultant
Vetasi Limited (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grafana
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Grafana is being used as part of our monitoring solution alongside services such as Icinga. It is used to graph the uptime as well as sessions etc. This is then exported as part of our monthly review and supplied to clients as part of the billing cycle. It is also used by the support team too with the monitoring solution to spot any trends that could potentially lead to issues in the future.
Pros
  • Graphing lots of data
  • Simplicity of setup
  • Readability of logs
Cons
  • Configuration plugins
  • Automation of setups
  • Custom exports
Likelihood to Recommend
We create monthly availability reports and connection reports for services. Grafana helps break down the information from the logs of the services into easily readable formats to speed up the reporting process.

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.
Grafana Feature Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
56.66666666666667%
5.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
60%
6.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Predictive Analytics
30%
3.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
70%
7.0
Pixel Perfect reports
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
72.5%
7.3
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
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
70%
7.0
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
Return on Investment
  • Time-consuming reports reduced
  • Spotting trends in services
  • Preventive maintenance
Alternatives Considered
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
Other Software Used

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)
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