We performed a comparison between Grafana and Monte Carlo 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 best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"The solution should include online support."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Monte Carlo is ranked 1st in Data Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Monte Carlo is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Monte Carlo writes "Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface. ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Monte Carlo is most compared with Datadog, Splunk APM, Acceldata, Dynatrace and Unravel Data.
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