Grafana Reviews

We use Grafana as an APM solution to monitor the performance of our serverless core, like, doctors and containers.

Grafana is a very important tool or product that helps us receive information like alarms, performance, KPIs, and metrics. So Grafana is an important part of our business that helps us to make decisions and plan for business improvement.

The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability. Currently, we use the CEMA format to classify alarms according to the callers. For instance, critical alarms are displayed in red, warnings in yellow, and announcement alarms in green. We use Grafana for the formatting of alarms.

The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk. Some functionalities are unavailable for us since we use the AWS-managed version of Grafana

I have been using Grafana for three years.

We've never had an outage with Grafana, and its stability is very nice.

Around 25 to 30 people are using Grafana in our organization.

Before using Grafana, we previously used different solutions like PRTG and OpenNMS.

I tried installing Grafana long ago, but it was very hard. Beginners will find that installing Grafana is not as simple as other solutions. You need to have the intermediate or medium-level experience to install Grafana.

Grafana's usability depends on your perspective and function. In my current job, Grafan helps us with serverless solutions. However, Grafana cannot be helpful in monitoring, networking, and interfacing for routers.

My advice to new users of Grafana is to have nice documentation and a good knowledge base before performing tasks like installation or configuration.

Overall, I rate Grafana an eight out of ten.

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.