We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Grafana over Azure Monitor as it offers highly customizable and visually appealing graphs, flexibility in integration with other tools, and is open-source. Although Grafana's customer service and support have mixed reviews, its ease of setup and moderate pricing make it a popular choice for data visualization and analytics.
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The solution has good features."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"It is a stable solution."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and New Relic, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Dynatrace, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Azure Monitor vs. Grafana report.
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