Grafana Reviews

Best in collecting logs of the events. Completely reliable in management of notification, time, and alerts. Automated tracking dashboard for instant review.

Not easy to start with , tricky panel and features.

I use Grafana to have better visualization on what's happening about metrics collected by Zabbix server and Graylog Server (just add the data source). With Grafana I can create several dashboards that contain different kind of panels: bars, gauges, numbers -called stat- (changing colour if a threshold is reached), graphs, logs... Just add the metric you want to be displayed. With these informations displayed on a large monitor anyone can be alerted when a value is out of range in an easy and effective way. There are additional plugins available to better customize your panel. Grafana runs on linux, the installation is easy and quick. You can easily find documentation on internet.

some plugins are in beta or don't work as expected

- dashboarding - insight into metrics, traces and logging - synthetics checks - K6 Load testing -Alerting

- licence is also user based - Learning curve is for developers

It's very easy to mix different data and create different graphs. Now it's possible to make graphs and mix with images, SVG images. All of this in a very intuitive way.

It's not possible to make granular permissions in the versions we use.

The ease of making visualizations with different data sources (ex. influx DB). Easy to make visualizations of energy datasets. We are visualizing all the energy data of the campus on real time base with Grafana. This is very useful to have an overview of the realtime consumption of the different sites. With Grafana we also implement upper and lower limits. When consumption is to high, we try to lower down the consumption of the different processes, depending of the price.

It is hard to make reports with Grafana. For this reason, for making reports we are using other tools and visualisation software. Next to that sometimes updates are making that some visualisations are not possible anymore. But over the time I use Grafana, it keeps getting better.

The Amount of available Dashboards made from the Community or the Developer makes using grafana very easy. But also if you need to build your own Dashboard you can do it quite easy. Highlight is the Fusion of Data from several sources.

Innitial Installation can be a bit tricky, if not used in premade Docker Enviroment.

Easy deployment, integrates nicely with Zabbix and has many graphs for data visualization.I like the fact that I can customize a lot the dashboard.

Some configurations might be difficult if you are new on Linux.

It can be integrate with many other tools easily like as Zabbix, elk, Prometheus, precona

good application deployed on production enviourment

Key features are its plugins, UI and monitoring aspects.Alerts and visualization makes this product unique and outstanding.Easily integrated with many software and can manage multiple servers.

The process can be made more user friendly and KEDB can be improved.

Grafana is a great tool offering connections to several types of data source (sql, postgresql, ...), allowing the user to query and plot the data. In addition, it provides the users with a dashboard where they can find all the visualizations they created such as graphs, tables and many more.

Despites its interesting features, Grafana is a bit complex to deploy and to utilize; it necessitates a bunch of expertise and information in a variety of fields. A complex dashboard, for example, requires competence in JSON.

Although dashboard creation might be difficult at first, once you get to know Grafana, creating pretty and useful dashboards is quick and easy. Being open source is also a great characteristic Grafana is easy to integrate with all the other tools and services your team might have, such as Slack, SQL databases, Elasticsearch databases, etc... Also, the alert monitoring feature is very useful, powerful and easy to configure

Grafana is a very complete but complex tool. The initial configuration is complex and cumbersome. Dashboard creation has a steep learning curve (although very short) and the creation of more complex dashboards requires knowledge of JSON. Also, when Grafana can get slow, specially when you try to render a lot of data at the same time (for example, months of 1s granular data)

It is unrivaled to monitoring and reporting time series data.

it has no multi language support and it has need to improvement visual query builder.

The ability to generate visually attractive, efficient dashboards that help the operations area understand what is happening on the monitored platforms.

That different data sources cannot be used in the same graph at the same time, causing a visual comparison of the data to be difficult.

The most I like to have this software used as its free to use and also its an open source software. Grafana consists of various kinds of authenticating methods and security level setup. It has a an alert and monitoring tool which keeps on updating after a threshold value for which is set. It has chances of new developments and API interaction, Creation of new measurements and demonstrating concerning different devices

Everything has a limit, as its Limits charts to Time Series, It is not self manageable. The dashboard also has a very limited organisation. The UI isnt that much effective, as its having a very limited designs. It has set its boundaries to time series only, as its not comparitively well organised with respect of other tools in the market such as Power BI etc...

Nice graphical dashboard panel that show network device utilization, data and stats including time stamps which can be download.

It doesn't have the ability to set multiple dates/ times graphs in a single panel for comparison purposes. Product might need to consider optional PDF along with CSV when download files.

The dashboards that are built with Grafana are very appealing. Everyone from basic users, high level management and Engineers find the data visualization extremely beneficial.

Getting the dashboards built out exactly how you want can sometimes be difficult.

Its easy to use. There is multiple types of graphs to show whatever you need. It has an easy interface with Data Base, log browsers, etc.

I was not able to configure a null value when there is no metric for a specific point of time, just between another ones. So the graph shows a continuos line, but there should be an empty space in the middle

You can customize your dashboards as you wish, you can create your own or you can find one from the community.

The editor could be a little bit more visual and the UX can be improved.

Grafana is a great monitoring front-end for surfacing metrics from a variety of sources. I use Grafana on a daily basis to monitor internal systems (e.g. number of WARNs and ERRORs in logs) and also third-party connectivity (e.g. response times). Absolutely invaluable.

Once dashboard are set up they're brilliant. My only complaint is that the initial setup isn't particularly intuitive. I guess that's because of the flexibility to pull data from a variety of sources. And if you have a similar example to copy then it's not so bad.

In Grafana it's very easy to create the dashboard and plot the data at the same location from multiple resources. It supports many data sources like Prometheus and Influx database.

If we need to create custom dashboards, we need to learn JASON language.

Grafana is extremely highly customizable. You can create your own dashboards exactly how you want them. There are many plugins available online -- for us, there is a plugin for just about any storage array or operating system we want to monitor. We now use free Grafana instead of 6-figure $$$ monitoring software we used to pay for, and we can monitor more systems, customize better, and get more detail than we could get with that expensive software. Updates for Grafana are easy to find and install.

Since it is free and open source, there is no support, but you might be able to find some 3rd-party support you could pay for. You really need to put this in the hands of someone who understands the internals of what you are monitoring (OS and/or storage arrays), understands databases, and preferably someone who is good with coding to get the most out of the product.

This software can connect with a lot of things, like mysql, postgres, zabbix. This made a powerfull tool for develop a nice dashboard to show any type of graphs.

You need to know the main principles of the conector you will use.

I love the customizable dashboards with the ability to zero in on specific time frames. The alert settings can be adjusted, the data sources can be customized, and the notifications can be customized. It's a very flexible tool and is open source.

The downside of having something so customizable is that you need to invest some time to get it to produce what you're looking for. It's worth the investment, but know ahead of time that it is a significant investment. Aside from setting up the data in and alerts out (and configuring the limits, etc.), you also need a storage solution if you want to keep a historical record; but this isn't super necessary since your data sources likely have storage solutions. Still, it would be nice to have a record of Grafana since that is where you've invested the time and congregated the data.

Grafana gives the ability to produce beautiful data visualizations that offer realtime insights into the data set s thanks to its rich collection of graphs and visuals. It supports connectivity with numerous data sources like excel, csv, SQL etc. The created dashboards are opened in web browser that gives great opportunity to share and present on network operation centre main screen. The dashboards developed are scalable and flexible.

In the start it takes little bit of effort to come up with a visualization that you need to develop there on its fairly easy and scalable.

La facilidad para recoger datos de la infraestructura con poca configuración. Ofrece mucha flexibilidad para configurar los paneles y visualizar los datos como te guste.

A veces no he encontrado algunas integraciones para monitorizar algunos productos.