Grafana is your one stop shop for complete O11y
Updated February 17, 2025

Grafana is your one stop shop for complete O11y

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Grafana - Enterprise Stack

Overall Satisfaction with Grafana

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
  • 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
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.
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.

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

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

7.8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
7
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
6
8.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
Pixel Perfect reports
6
6.8
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
8
8.4
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
9

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