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Grafana vs InfoVista 5View NetFlow comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
InfoVista 5View NetFlow
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
71st
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Grafana is 7.2%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of InfoVista 5View NetFlow is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2022
Beneficial operational excellence, reliable, and scalable
We are using Grafana for observability dashboards Grafana has helped our organization with observability and operational excellence. Operational excellence is a key part of any organization from a data platform perspective and setting the alerts and monitoring policies on Grafana was easy. The…
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Jul 31, 2019
Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow
We use InfoVista 5View NetFlow on a private cloud. This product has improved the way our organization functions through the better discovery of services. We check the IP address for Office 365 and other cloud applications used in business operations. We use InfoVista 5View NetFlow to understand the cost of the problems on our network links. We monitor the traffic flow and check which application is causing a lot of traffic. Instead of buying more bandwidth, we target the pocket with very high traffic. We move these applications so that the traffic is served through another partner. From Milan to Rome, we use various utilities for network load balancing for applications requiring excessive traffic. We monitor the traffic with InfoVista 5View NetFlow before going to the business and checking the on-site location for problems or issues.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"It has good stability."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
 

Cons

"Grafana could improve by having its own query language. Currently, it uses languages like Prometheus or InfluxDB, which not everyone knows. Their query language should be easier."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"​The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards.​"
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For me, Grafana is a cheap tool because I don't have to spend much time learning the product since it is a simple solution."
"We use the open-source version of Grafana."
"I give the price an eight out of ten."
"We are using the open-source license."
"Since Grafana is an open-source solution, it is free of cost."
"The solution is expensive."
"My company uses the open-source version of Grafana, so it's free."
"It's free of cost; it operates as an open-source tool."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
6%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Grafana?
For me, Grafana is a cheap tool because I don't have to spend much time learning the product since it is a simple solution. I don't know if there are different paid versions of the product.
What needs improvement with Grafana?
Grafana could improve by having its own query language. Currently, it uses languages like Prometheus or InfluxDB, which not everyone knows. Their query language should be easier.
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