We performed a comparison between Grafana and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The solution can scale well."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Sentry, Chronosphere, Azure Monitor, Datadog and New Relic.
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