Excellent tool for working data and creating important metrics
What do you like best about the product?
Even though it is free, the tool is powerful and contains several connectors to get the data. Ease of creating dashboards to show metrics and export reports. In addition to having the option to create users for viewing only
What do you dislike about the product?
Creating queries to assemble the panels and tables is not very intuitive. You will need a professional who understands data to obtain the most optimized way to generate the dashboards
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having the dashboards in real-time and online makes it much easier to visualize the process as a business. In addition to making it simpler to identify exception cases or out-of-average data
Grafana for monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Grafana uses to monitor our site or application like how much cpu and memory is use and how much traffic appears on website it manages all these easily also it is easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
We can not show custom notification alert on main dashboard also it is hard to find the labels ang tags moreover grafana is expensive as compared to other monitoring tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily find how mnay cpu and memory consumer in mean time by simply running queries it also connect with virtual machines to show daily usage to machines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Grafana is faster than other monitoring tools because it is written in go language
Monitoring Visualization
What do you like best about the product?
There are lots of things that should be mentioned it was the best visualization tool Its is easy to set up and handle its supports lots of data sources to perform better visualization also publish dashboard Alert notification are also provide which send you notification in many different media like slack email telegram
What do you dislike about the product?
The problem i personally faced is that its doesnot create alerts on builtin dashboards or use the variable we need to create seperate panel to create alert in dashboard we use from grafana labs. For grafana lab which is bit expensive and
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a part of my job as a DevOps engineer monitoring is an essential part that is now easy and interesting using attractive dashboards and panels and supporting lots of data sources, including AWS Kubernetes Jenkins Prometheus, etc we can create user and roles and give them permissions too. its also provides alerts notification with a seperate page in it
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are wishing for exceptional monitoring tool and not to shift many times according to your needs, then you must go with grafana to monitor your machine endpoints or access your logs publish your dashboard easily create users and their roles
Excellent software for monitoring dashboards.
What do you like best about the product?
We can customize the graphs on the dashboard to accommodate different types of users so they only see the data needed for their job. Their permission model allows us to craft data-sensitive dashboards and restrict them by user or team.
Another plus is that one can even hook Grafana directly to a database to query any data for a dasboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest problem is that one cannot create alerts on dashboards that use template variables. We use those variables heavily in almost all our dashboards, forcing us to rely on 3rd party software to dispatch our alerts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Grafana to monitor the status, load and health of our instances and containers across our cluster. By using Loki (another Grafana product for logging) we can correlate the graphs with the application logs to see when a process impacts performance of our service in real time.
Easy tool for visualizing the health of servers
What do you like best about the product?
The graphical visualization of utilization and the performance of the system and the logs is the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
Configuration of the different parameters is a bit time-consuming process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the case of a multi-server environment, it is an excellent tool to realize the server's performance all in one window.
Grafana: A powerful opensource monitoring/visualizat tool
What do you like best about the product?
- It's Opensource
- It supports tons of integrations
- Graphs are very beautiful and interactive
- Graph/Dashboard as cpdey
- Can fire alerts and so many channels are supported
What do you dislike about the product?
- There are so many settings which we can't configure from UI, We've to open up configuration files in command line text editors and manually fillup the settings.
- In terms of visualization it's best but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could breakdown all other visualization tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're visualizing metrics exported from our Kubernetes Clusters by Prometheus agent on Grafana and sending alerts on our channels whenever a metric is touching threshold.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Should focus on log analysis functionality and configuring settings from UI
Customizable, flexible, open source dashboarding tool supporting a lot of data sources
What is our primary use case?
We use Grafana to visualize IT infrastructure monitoring data. We have real-time, historical, and trend data that we can visualize in a flexible manner using Grafana. We use Zabbix to collect, process, and store the data. Zabbix has its own inbuilt visualization widgets, dashboards, and graphs, however, Grafana adds more flexibility. We have integrated Zabbix with Grafana using the Zabbix API which gives access to almost all components of the Zabbix Software.
Our environment is on-premises so we have both Zabbix and Grafana locally installed.
How has it helped my organization?
Grafana has greatly improved the way we visualize monitoring data. Now, every team member from directors, managers, sales representatives, to technical engineers can be granted access to custom dashboards relevant to their line of work.
With the latest Grafana versions, reports can be generated from dashboards to update senior management officers.
The dashboards are not only intuitive and insightful, but they are also beautiful so it makes monitoring and data visualization more enjoyable.
Since it can easily be integrated with other software, having that important part of data processing taken care of makes technical teams more focused on improving data sources and enriching the data.
What is most valuable?
The ability to create almost all kinds of graphs and visualize any kind of information in an appealing way is extremely useful to us.
The customizability of dashboards and widgets is impressive.
The flexibility in integration with other tools as data sources of data enriching tools has been great.
It is open-source, so it saves a lot on costs and the community is friendly and powerful.
The product can be used to cater to multiple use cases. Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable.
The ability to import and export dashboards saves us a lot of time for popular systems and dashboards.
What needs improvement?
The lack of native ability to aggregate data from multiple sources could be improved. As it is not a data store, it is challenging to correlate data from multiple data sources. Adding an out-of-box capability to aggregate and correlate different types of data would make Grafana even better.
It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific. Improvements in that area would be great.
Machine learning capabilities are still limited. This is an improvement in that area is needed.
Performance improvement when querying and searching textual data would be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution for more than three years
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
When computing resources are properly optimized Grafana runs in a quite stable manner. As Grafana is an analytics and visualization platform, it is a bit hungry on CPU and Memory usage. When Grafana instances are properly planned and configured, computing resources bottlenecks can be avoided. Our instances haven't given us headaches from the time we set them up.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Grafana is mainly for visualization, so many instances can be set as needed. Grafana can also be configured for high availability for some scenarios like alerting, authentication, and databases.
How are customer service and support?
We haven't bought technical support and haven't dealt with their customer service agents.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used native dashboards and graphs of another system we use. We use Zabbix for monitoring but we added Grafana to add more visualization flexibility.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward, however, some resource optimization and tuning were needed. We have experienced professionals in tuning OS systems and application resources so it was not too complex for us.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented everything fully in-house. Since we never had a vendor team, we don't know yet the level of expertise they have. The Grafana community has been so helpful in this regard.
What was our ROI?
I can confidently say we have a 100% return on investment. Grafana has greatly enriched our data visualization and analytics. We see the prospect of it appealing even to more senior management. They may not be quite technical, but they appreciate having data nicely visualized so they know what is going on.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
You can choose from the fully open-source or enterprise editions. We chose the open-source and did everything in-house. Thorough planning and performance considerations are important, as the tool can be heavy on memory and computing resources.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We considered Kibana before we chose this solution.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is great and is one of the best in the market for visualization.
Grafana - Great visualization application / tool for Monitoring and Reports
What do you like best about the product?
The updated colorful and meaningful graphs and charts are excellent, and with the great visualizations in the panels and the much-required metrics and other good features they provide.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing more, but the alerting options are not available for Instana, and some other data sources is a drawback which I feel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Grafana for the Instana data source. We benefit from the dashboards we customize based on our application, Server, and website monitoring purposes. Also, we have integrated AWS cloud watch with Grafana for better monitoring.
We use Grafana to generate graphical reports for monthly and weekly tenure and can be shared,
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perfect monitoring tool with great visualizations inbuilt, also easy to configure good dashboards based on our requirements.
Grafana - Cross platform solution for dashboarding
What do you like best about the product?
The Grafana is equipped with very lightweight dashboard pages.
It does not lag a little.
The graphs are very much interactive with the user.
we have the possibility to draw more than one pens in a single chart, which most of the software don't support.
The colouring is very much versatile for the graphs.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not have connectivity with all of the databases in the market. That is okay because it supports connectivity with most of the databases.
It does not have the automatic report generation facility, that could have been introduced so that we can have automated reporting for our customers.
It also could have a one or two communication drivers to talk with device directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connectivity with InfluxDB and SQL server.
querying the data from the database .
Dash boarding the data in a webbrowser.
Grafana Visualizes Environment Data
What do you like best about the product?
Grafana has allowed us to visualize data we were not collecting prior. From simple statistics such as temperature and humidity of our datacenters, to performance metrics of a variety of production servers, we can now not only have an easy-to-digest snapshot of where our environment stands, but forecast where we need to be to maintain a desired level of performance for a growing userbase.
What do you dislike about the product?
Grafana can take some finesse to visualize data in a desirable fashion. Although there is a large breadth of information that it can digest and display in a visually appealing way, it can take a bit of massaging to showcase the data in the way that is wanted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We went from using real-time monitoring such as Windows Performance metrics to wall thermostats in our datacenters to have any idea of where we stood with our hardware and physical environments, to being able to view historical trends and forecast new equipment purchases. There is obvious value in being pro-active in these regards, as opposed to reactive.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start with simple dashboards showing correlations with only 1 or 2 data points; once more data is being processed it's easy to dive deep into data displays that you didn't even know you could showcase, let alone would want to. We've gone from wanting simple measurements of the temperatures of our datacenters to collecting performance metrics on almost all production servers, usage rates of UPS devices, and network traffic flows from various devices across our network.
