Grafana Reviews

Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services.

• Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs.
• Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams.
• Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools (like Zabbix, Nagios, Slack, etc.).

The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards.

No issues.

Currently no, but you will need to use MySQL DB instead of sqlite3 for your production environment.

All support is provided by the community, and the documentation is sufficient to solve somes issues.

No previous solution was used.

It is very simple. Read the documentation!

Only the configuration for LDAP authentication is a bit complex, in case of you are using multiple domains.

Grafana is free and open source.

We did not evaluate other solutions.

Read the documentation before installing. Do a PoC before deploying it into production.

I'm a DevOps Kubernetes consultant and we are customers of Grafana.

Grafana is great when it comes to capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI. It's a very rich product. 

Perhaps the display of the trigger limits should be more efficient because it's difficult to see that in a graph. We also have an issue with flapping where values move up and down and knowing how to deal with that is quite complicated in Grafana.

I've been using this solution for one year. 

The solution is very stable. 

It's easy to scale this solution. 

Customer support is quite efficient. 

Positive

I previously worked for Zabbix. The main difference is in the performance and I prefer Grafana.

The initial setup is relatively simple but it can take a couple of weeks to get a grip on the GUI. We did the set up in-house, using documentation and a couple of training calls. Deployment took about a week. We have five users of Grafana in the company. 

This is a good solution and I recommend it but it's important to have good training and to use the latest version. I rate this solution eight out of 10.