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2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader in Observability

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Last updated: March 2026

Grafana overview

What is Grafana?

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OpenTelemetry support. Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—whether self-managed or in the cloud.

Starting price

19flat rate /
per month

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Pros & Cons

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Data Visualization

User Interface

Monitoring

Training and Learning Curve

Grafana’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Grafana pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
3-4(26)
5(45)

What do users say about Grafana?

Being able to have a central place to easily view data and the history of that data over time has been vitial for decision making as far as upgrading systems, etc.

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Who uses Grafana?

Based on 71 verified user reviews.

Company size

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Small Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Retail
Facilities Services
Hospital & Health Care
Others

Use cases

Reporting
Observability
Network Monitoring
Application Performance Management
Log Management

Grafana's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Grafana users:

Search/Filter
Performance metrics
Ad hoc query
Drag & drop
Data import/export
Customizable dashboard
Forecasting

All Grafana features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Activity dashboard
Activity monitoring
Activity tracking
Ad hoc query
Ad hoc reporting
AI/Machine learning
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Analytics
Anomaly detection
API
Application-Level analysis
Application management
Asset Discovery
Audit management
Audit trail
Bandwidth monitoring
Baseline manager
Bottleneck identification
Capacity management
Capacity planning
Collaboration tools
Compliance management
Compliance tracking
Configuration management
Container monitoring
Correlation Analysis
Customizable branding
Customizable dashboard
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Dashboard
Dashboard creation
Data analysis tools
Database monitoring
Data connectors
Data import/export
Data synchronization
Data visualization
Dependency tracking
Device auto discovery
Diagnostic tools
Downtime tracking
Drag & drop
Email alerts
Event logs
Event Tracking
Financial reporting
Forecasting
HIPAA compliant
Incident management
Incident reporting
IP address monitoring
Issue tracking
Key performance indicators
Load balancing
Log analysis
Log collection
Log management
Log parsing
Log rotation
Marketing reports
Monitoring
Multi-Location monitoring
Multiple data sources
Network analysis
Network mapping
Network monitoring
OLAP
Patch management
Pattern detection and recognition
PCI compliance
Performance metrics
Performance monitoring
Policy management
Predictive analytics
Prioritization
Query analysis
Real-time alerts
Real-Time analytics
Real-Time data
Real-Time monitoring
Real-Time notifications
Real-Time reporting
Remediation management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Risk alerts
Role-Based permissions
Root cause analysis
Sales reports
Scheduled/Automated reports
Search/Filter
Secure data storage
Server monitoring
Service level agreement (sla) management
Simple network management protocol (snmp)
Single sign on
Task management
Third-Party integrations
Threat intelligence
Threat response
Threshold alerts
Transaction monitoring
Trend analysis
Troubleshooting
Uptime reporting
User management
Virtualization
Visual analytics
Vulnerability management
Vulnerability scanning
Web traffic reporting
Widgets
Workflow management

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Grafana pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Cloud Pro

19

Per month

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Enterprise

25,000

Per year

Features included:

  • Premium Support
  • Custom Retention
  • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
  • Custom Uptime SLA

User opinions about Grafana price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Grafana's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Being able to have a central place to easily view data and the history of that data over time has been vitial for decision making as far as upgrading systems, etc.”
DG

Dawson G.

Network and Systems Administrator

“I've very much enjoyed creating dashboards to aggregate data from multiple sources (MySQL, Zabbix, flat file, APIs, etc).”
DG

Dawson G.

Network and Systems Administrator

Grafana integrations (42)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 71 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Grafana integrations and how users feel about them.

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Zabbix

Integration rating: 5.0 (8)

Actually we use Zabbix GAM with Galileo

MH

Mario H.

Linux Systems Engineer

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MySQL

Integration rating: 5.0 (5)

Connect to our MySQL databases to pull data,

To store large datasets.

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Rhys B.

Senior Product Manager

1/2
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Slack

Integration rating: 4.7 (4)

We use this to tag people and notify them of tasks.

AF

Amadna F.

Head of Quality

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PostgreSQL

Integration rating: 4.5 (2)

Connect PostgreSQL database to use in Dbeaver

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Tony P.

Software Engineer

Grafana support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

24/7 (Live rep)
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
Chat

Training options

In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos

Grafana FAQs

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