Dell CloudIQ vs Grafana Enterprise Stack comparison

Dell Technologies and Grafana Labs are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Dell Technologies is ranked #32 with an average rating of 8.5, while Grafana Labs is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.6. Dell Technologies holds a 0.9% mindshare in IM, compared to Grafana Labs’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Grafana Labs users who would recommend it.

Dell CloudIQ

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Grafana Enterprise Stack

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92% willing to recommend

Dell CloudIQ

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Dell CloudIQ and Grafana Enterprise Stack compete in infrastructure management and provide distinct features for different user needs. Grafana Enterprise Stack offers advanced analytics, giving it an advantage for users focused on data visualization.

Features: Dell CloudIQ focuses on proactive monitoring, integration with Dell infrastructure, and automation with predictive analytics. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides customizable dashboards, extensive visualization options, and diverse data source integration.

Room for Improvement: Dell CloudIQ could enhance its non-Dell infrastructure support, offer more visualization tools, and improve third-party integrations. Grafana Enterprise Stack might improve ease of use, reduce resource consumption, and enhance its out-of-the-box reports.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell CloudIQ offers straightforward cloud-based deployment with robust customer support ideal for Dell environments. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides flexible deployment options, extensive support, and resources for both cloud and on-premises setups.

Pricing and ROI: Dell CloudIQ is generally more cost-effective initially, providing ROI through efficient resource management for Dell users. Grafana Enterprise Stack requires a higher initial investment but offers substantial long-term ROI with powerful analytics and flexibility.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell CloudIQ vs. Grafana Enterprise Stack Report (Updated: January 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell CloudIQ

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

32nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Dell CloudIQ is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Grafana Enterprise Stack	1.1%
Dell CloudIQ	0.9%
Other	98.0%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Haseeb Sheikh

Senior Manager Enterprise Solutions at a media company with 201-500 employees

Proactive monitoring has improved availability and capacity reporting for my infrastructure

The current features including availability, performance, and capacity are good enough, and I think more of better alerting along with improved thresholds of alerts should be implemented. It is helpful, but it should also include the capability to detect zero-day attacks if there are any. I think the remediation could have been better. For example, if I am upgrading my firmware or BIOS or firmware of the infrastructure, it should give me exact CVSS scores and remediation data provided against the CVSS scores. I think the Dell CloudIQ app could be more interactive. If there is a possibility that I can open tickets or SRs via the Dell CloudIQ app, that would be a good feature.

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Rajan M

Test Lead at Calpine Group

Efficient monitoring and alerting enhance operational insights

With Grafana Enterprise Stack, we can identify issues that New Relic cannot help with. While New Relic requires purchase and supports frontend and backend components, Grafana Enterprise Stack helps identify where issues are occurring. When we need to deep dive into issues, we use New Relic to trace transactions and determine where maximum impact occurs, whether in core size, DB side, or frontend components that slow performance. We first evaluate with Grafana Enterprise Stack, then move to New Relic if we identify performance degradation, such as DB queries taking too much time. Grafana Enterprise Stack responds to queries within 6 to 12 hours. They contact users through email immediately when available. Similarly, New Relic follows the same pattern, responding immediately when requests are raised and resolving issues promptly.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Mobile application is the most valuable feature for us. We can monitor all the storages on our phones. It's really good."

"Some of the most valuable features of CloudIQ include its health status alerts, which allow you to see quickly if there is something that needs immediate attention, preventing the need to check each system individually."

"The dashboard is clear and user-friendly."

"Has really nice roll-up dashboards."

"The best thing about this solution is that you can check for the infrastructure and system updates that you might need to be compliant with the Cloud."

"Fewer vulnerabilities have been observed in the four years we have used the solution."

"CloudIQ allows us to monitor our servers centrally, and we can receive notifications in case of issues, like a potential hard drive failure."

"I use Dell CloudIQ for the availability and capacity reporting, which is very helpful in terms of capacity and availability reporting, and if there is any fault or faulty drive or faulty part, I am alerted on time with that, which is the main benefit that avoids any unplanned outage."

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"The dashboards are pretty good."

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

"Grafana has enough features around dashboard management. It's got enough plugins to create your dashboards."

"It is truly reliable."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

"Grafana's most valuable feature is its ability to provide a graphical representation of data collected from various sources."

"The most valuable features for us are dashboards; we can dashboard anything that we can think of, we can dashboard and measure."

"Compared to other packages, Grafana Enterprise Stack is user-friendly and easy to configure quickly."

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Cons

"I think the remediation could have been better."

"There is a need for improvement in predictive maintenance, which I assume is somewhat AI-driven."

"Getting through support has become a difficult thing. Dell's support has degraded since they took over EMC. It's a bit difficult to use."

"It can improve the reporting facility to create custom reports or dashboards."

"The process of upgrading could be streamlined."

"The main limitation of CloudIQ is that it is intended to be used exclusively with Dell hardware."

"Supporting legacy systems is an area that can be improved."

"In terms of improvement, they should enhance the product range."

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"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"Integrating AI capabilities for automated self-healing and reduced manual interventions would be valuable."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."

"Grafana Enterprise Stack is complex and not easy or simple."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is more expensive than NetApp which offers file systems in various price ranges."

"I believe it is a free product because we don't pay for it."

"I use the tool's free license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Energy/Utilities Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell CloudIQ?

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What is your primary use case for Dell CloudIQ?

I moved to a new organization where I am also using Dell CloudIQ. I use Dell CloudIQ to monitor PowerStore as well as Dell PowerEdge servers.

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What advice do you have for others considering Dell CloudIQ?

For performance analytics, I have my own NMS in-house that I use. I have deployed a VApp on-premises with all of the servers and storage integrated, and it sends telemetry data directly to Dell. My...

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What do you like most about Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance,...

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What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I am trying to think about its advanced alerting features; we do not use it too much for that. We do get it to report through to our help desk system and if a threshold gets broken, then a ticket i...

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have switched to a different suite, focusing on customer edge solutions that are mostly Fortinet. To manage it, I use Grafana Enterprise Stack and a whole bunch of tools that we wrote ourselves. ...

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Overview

CloudIQ is a no cost Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that provides a simple monitoring interface for an unlimited number of Unity systems. CloudIQ accesses data in near real time to enable monitoring and troubleshooting for Unity systems.

Dell Technologies

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

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Sample Customers

North Carolina State University

1. Uber 2. PayPal 3. eBay 4. Sony 5. Red Hat 6. IBM 7. Cisco 8. Adobe 9. Expedia 10. Booking.com 11. Airbnb 12. LinkedIn 13. Twitter 14. Netflix 15. Spotify 16. Pinterest 17. Slack 18. GitLab 19. Docker 20. Atlassian 21. Salesforce 22. Microsoft 23. Google 24. Amazon 25. Facebook 26. Apple 27. Intel 28. Oracle 29. SAP 30. VMware 31. HP 32. Dell

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