Item: Grafana
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

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 and Cons

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

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

New Relic

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

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

OpsGenie, Slack, Graylog

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 - easy flexible data-driven and great monitoring tool

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Grafana