Grafana a full fledge observability platform for all your server and app monitoring needs
October 02, 2023
Grafana a full fledge observability platform for all your server and app monitoring needs
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Grafana Cloud - Free
Overall Satisfaction with Grafana
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.
- 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
- Helps us to keep our application and server up all time
- Dashboards are easy to share with others
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.
Do you think Grafana delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Grafana's feature set?
Yes
Did Grafana live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Grafana go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Grafana again?
Yes