Grafana
About Grafana
Grafana is an open-source platform for querying, visualizing, and alerting on time-series data. Its core capability is to turn a large amount of data into visually appealing graphs and dashboards. Grafana also offers a range of solutions for observability, including log aggregation with Grafana Loki, distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo, and performance/load testing with Grafana k6. The platform supports multiple data sources, making it easy for users to connect and visualize data in various formats, including Graphite, Prometheus, MongoDB, and more.
Grafana also provides end-to-end solutions for various use cases ranging from Application Observability to Incident Response and Management. The platform is available both through their self-managed Grafana Enterprise and fully managed Grafana Cloud services. Additionally, Grafana offers a wide variety of educational resources such as webinars, documentation, demos, and tutorials to improve users' technical skills.
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- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Why we have to use Grafana?
Reviewed on 2024/02/05
It's "The daily tool" to review, server status, service status, backups status. It's the 'must...
It's "The daily tool" to review, server status, service status, backups status. It's the 'must have' tool for viewing the status of servers.
Pros
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.
Cons
It's not possible to make granular permissions in the versions we use.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Review from college - Howest
Reviewed on 2023/08/28
Grafana was the first visualization tool we used with our students. We are still using it because...
Grafana was the first visualization tool we used with our students. We are still using it because it makes it possible to explain the whole visualisation process of data. Starting from getting data in a database to make realtime visualizations and error reporting possible. Due to real time visualization of the data, we can make savings in the company. Next to that we can make calculations of optimization possibilities of the campus (heat and electricity) which are very usefull to save more energy.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
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Easy in use and having nice visualisation options.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
My Experience using Grafana
Reviewed on 2022/03/29
Visualising got easy to manage cloud monitoring services as able to integrate different clouds on...
Visualising got easy to manage cloud monitoring services as able to integrate different clouds on the same dashboard. It can be easily configured with most Databases as Relational, Time-Series. The alert system is the most effective one which we can make use of in Grafana to set the Alerts and all.
Pros
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
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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...
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best Product ever
Reviewed on 2024/12/30
Awesome! since the application is very user-friendly anyone can learn and get hands on it quickly.
Awesome! since the application is very user-friendly anyone can learn and get hands on it quickly.
Pros
1. Simple user interface.
2. Functionality.
3. Correctness.
4. Efficiency.
Cons
1. Testability. (finds little trouble while configuration)
2. Security. (multi-factor authentication required.)
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
insight and understanding into your application
Reviewed on 2024/02/15
With Grafana you get insight and understanding into your application, easy setup dashboards.
With Grafana you get insight and understanding into your application, easy setup dashboards.
Pros
- dashboarding
- insight into metrics, traces and logging
- synthetics checks
- K6 Load testing
-Alerting
Cons
- licence is also user based
- Learning curve is for developers
Reasons for Switching to Grafana
the price, licencing and the opensource variantGrafana FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Grafana.Q. What type of pricing plans does Grafana offer?
Grafana offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$29.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Grafana?
Grafana has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500
Q. What languages does Grafana support?
Grafana supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Grafana support mobile devices?
Grafana supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Grafana integrate with?
Grafana integrates with the following applications:
Datadog, MySQL, Zabbix
Q. What level of support does Grafana offer?
Grafana offers the following support options:
24/7 (Live rep)
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