I copied it on my primary server. I use it to monitor servers. I would say it is a good solution to track all the servers and platforms, specifically the technical platforms.
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Grafana Dashboards
What do you like best about the product?
The dash boards are well versed and can be easily modified to get the details of issue or required data be it 5xx errors or any other related queries
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no such thing to dislike all seems good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing real time data
Queries to customise dashboard
Monitoring of services health
Queries to customise dashboard
Monitoring of services health
one of the best open source monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
one of the tools for-
To build time series visualisations.
Adptable and scalable.
Community support.
Varieties of visualisation choices it provides charts, graphs and tables.
To build time series visualisations.
Adptable and scalable.
Community support.
Varieties of visualisation choices it provides charts, graphs and tables.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex queries which are similar to sql.
Absence of drag and drop interfaces which are present in new BI tools.
limits on queries.
there are few bugs present.
Absence of drag and drop interfaces which are present in new BI tools.
limits on queries.
there are few bugs present.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to application logs of any sort of kuberenetes deployments or jobs using the grafana ui. one of the time saver feature.
it solves issue of the visualization and monitoring of complex data sets.
it solves issue of the visualization and monitoring of complex data sets.
A good solution to track all the servers and platforms, but it needs to improve its configuration part
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Grafana has such features that it need not exist on other products.
What needs improvement?
I had issues with the solution's configuration part. Though I resolved it, the configuration is an area needing improvement since it is the solution's only problem.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience using Grafana. I am a new user of the tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven and a half out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product.
I know many people who use Grafana to monitor SuccessFactors.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is not very easy or difficult, so it is in the middle because I faced an issue with it the first time, but the next time, I will configure it and make it work properly and in the correct manner.
What other advice do I have?
To those planning to use the solution, I would say that they need to add the system administrator to use and install Grafana as a monitoring tool to check servers and platforms. It's a good solution to monitor all the platforms.
I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
A Highly Effective Open Source Observability Platform
What do you like best about the product?
- open source observability platform
- It is very adaptable and expandable
- Large user and contributor community.
- It provides several visualization choices, including charts, graphs, tables, and maps.
- It is simple to use and understand
- It is very adaptable and expandable
- Large user and contributor community.
- It provides several visualization choices, including charts, graphs, tables, and maps.
- It is simple to use and understand
What do you dislike about the product?
- It may be difficult to set up and configure, particularly in big deployments.
- It can be time-consuming, particularly for big dashboards with elaborate visualisations.
- The community's response time to concerns might be sluggish.
- Grafana's user interface is not as pleasant as that of certain other observability programs, such as Datadog and New Relic.
- It can be time-consuming, particularly for big dashboards with elaborate visualisations.
- The community's response time to concerns might be sluggish.
- Grafana's user interface is not as pleasant as that of certain other observability programs, such as Datadog and New Relic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Grafana Labs is a strong open source observability platform that is ideal for businesses of all sizes. It is very adaptable and expandable, with a big user and contributor community. However, it may be difficult to set up and configure, and it can be resource-intensive in big installations.
An open-source solution used to build custom dashboards
What is our primary use case?
I have used Grafana mainly to build custom dashboards. We haven't got Grafana Enterprise due to billing issues. I have used Grafana, installing it physically on a server to build custom dashboards using plug-ins. I have used Enterprise Grafana cloud for many integrations, like RabbitMQ, JMSQs, and datasets. We are mainly focused on dashboards and not on alerting.
What is most valuable?
Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature. Now they are leading many integration modules as well for RabbitMQ specifically. You will get a prebuilt dashboard. You have to configure the RabbitMQ, and you will have all the monitoring available. You don't have to actually develop a dashboard and identify what needs to be monitored.
What needs improvement?
Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve. We used Azure for our alerts and Grafana purely as a dashboard tool.
The solution's stability needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for three to four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have come across multiple issues with Grafana, like getting shut down automatically, the process getting killed, etc. Grafana, on a main level, is good, but the stability of the underneath platform supporting Grafana's UI needs to be improved.
I rate Grafana an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
While using the Grafana open-source version, scalability will definitely be a big challenge because you are not using an enterprise version. Grafana's open-source version is not scalable. It's useful for small use cases and specific use cases. Using the Grafana open-source version will be challenging if you want to deploy a hundred applications and bring up a hundred dashboards for different reasons. While it is possible to do, you will end up having issues.
How are customer service and support?
For open source, Grafana does not have technical support. It has an open forum where you can post your questions, and they will respond to you. However, their response on the open forum was good. Being an open-source solution, having a big community to support is an added advantage compared to other tools.
How was the initial setup?
Grafana's deployment takes around two hours. It's not super complicated, and it's pretty straightforward. Everything is available on the internet. You can browse the internet and get a bunch of documents to complete the deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Since Grafana is an open-source solution, it is free of cost.
What other advice do I have?
It's very good to start with the open source and very seamless. You can directly connect your data sources to the solution. You won't have to worry about managing the Grafana UI because Grafana comprises two things, namely, the data source where you are connecting and the dashboard. Getting started with Grafana Cloud is good because it's very seamless, good, and helpful. If you want to scale and use Grafana as an observability tool, I would say you have to think twice before choosing it because there are a lot of gaps, especially on the APM side of its application and performance monitoring side. The infrastructure gets complex as it scales. For a small use case, for independent use cases, or for building simple dashboards, I recommend Grafana.
With Grafana's open-source, you download a package, put it in your server, and run it. I've used Grafana Cloud as well. For Grafana open-source, the login is limited to two or three people. More people cannot log in, and you can create multiple users. You can create around five to six dashboards and use 10 to 12 plugins. If you have just one or two use cases to be used, like if you have order delivery and you are looking for a tool, Grafana is a great one because the integration is pretty simple.
Overall, I rate Grafana a nine out of ten.
Grafana Observability Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's provides a great monitoring system with huge scalability and customisation with the requirements of business where we can design our own dashboard
What do you dislike about the product?
As I have been using the monitoring tool grafana as a one stop place for our complete infrastructure hence I am unable to find any specific dislike but I feel being a open source tool it just has certain limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's provided a great insight of our infrastructure helping us with great visibility and observations in the system and helping us diagnose the system if and when required with minimal effort
Powerful Time Series Visualization Tool with steep learning curve for beginners.
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of building time series visualizations is fantastic. The choice of visuals available is quite comprehensive as well. However, other tools are available in the market with a cleaner interface and better response time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The query-based interface to generate charts is very old school and primitive. Drag and drop interfaces are available in every BI tool, and the majority are shifting to Natural Language query semantics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lack of Business Intelligence Tools which focus on time series data series. I used PromQL and GraphDB to create dashboards in Grafana.
Best open source tool for infra monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
We use grafana paired with prometheus for infra monitoring, it provides a very intuitive visualizations with graphs on time series data such as memory utilisation, cpu consumption. Grafana's feature to allow alert setup and integrations with pagerduty and splunk oncall really easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some bugs in Grafana, so not as refined as paid software like Newrelic. One more issue is that it doesn't provide alerting history if we want to review at the end of the week, so we had to rely on splunk for a report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data visualisation platforms are extremely pricey, but opensource tools like grafana paired with Promethues work wonders for small companies. Since we can host grafana on our servers we can keep sensitive data private.
Helps to monitor the performance of serverless core, like, doctors and containers
What is our primary use case?
We use Grafana as an APM solution to monitor the performance of our serverless core, like, doctors and containers.
How has it helped my organization?
Grafana is a very important tool or product that helps us receive information like alarms, performance, KPIs, and metrics. So Grafana is an important part of our business that helps us to make decisions and plan for business improvement.
What is most valuable?
The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability. Currently, we use the CEMA format to classify alarms according to the callers. For instance, critical alarms are displayed in red, warnings in yellow, and announcement alarms in green. We use Grafana for the formatting of alarms.
What needs improvement?
The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk. Some functionalities are unavailable for us since we use the AWS-managed version of Grafana
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We've never had an outage with Grafana, and its stability is very nice.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 25 to 30 people are using Grafana in our organization.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Grafana, we previously used different solutions like PRTG and OpenNMS.
How was the initial setup?
I tried installing Grafana long ago, but it was very hard. Beginners will find that installing Grafana is not as simple as other solutions. You need to have the intermediate or medium-level experience to install Grafana.
What other advice do I have?
Grafana's usability depends on your perspective and function. In my current job, Grafan helps us with serverless solutions. However, Grafana cannot be helpful in monitoring, networking, and interfacing for routers.
My advice to new users of Grafana is to have nice documentation and a good knowledge base before performing tasks like installation or configuration.
Overall, I rate Grafana an eight out of ten.
Provides good integration and generates application metrics efficiently
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for login and creating dashboards.
What is most valuable?
The solution provides good integration and accurate application metrics.
What needs improvement?
The solution's interface could be more accessible.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution for three years.
How are customer service and support?
I refer to the solution's online documentation in case of technical errors.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup process is complicated. Its complexity depends on the use cases. Also, as it is self-hosted on Grafana cloud, it requires minimum maintenance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive. Although, its price depends on infrastructure.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the solution a nine.
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