Grafana Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

System & Network Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 5, 2018

Creates collaboration; shares data and dashboards across teams

Pros and Cons

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

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

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.

One to three years.

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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.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.