We use Grafana as an APM solution to monitor the performance of our serverless core, like, doctors and containers.
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one of the best open source monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
one of the tools for-
To build time series visualisations.
Adptable and scalable.
Community support.
Varieties of visualisation choices it provides charts, graphs and tables.
To build time series visualisations.
Adptable and scalable.
Community support.
Varieties of visualisation choices it provides charts, graphs and tables.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex queries which are similar to sql.
Absence of drag and drop interfaces which are present in new BI tools.
limits on queries.
there are few bugs present.
Absence of drag and drop interfaces which are present in new BI tools.
limits on queries.
there are few bugs present.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to application logs of any sort of kuberenetes deployments or jobs using the grafana ui. one of the time saver feature.
it solves issue of the visualization and monitoring of complex data sets.
it solves issue of the visualization and monitoring of complex data sets.
Best open source tool for infra monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
We use grafana paired with prometheus for infra monitoring, it provides a very intuitive visualizations with graphs on time series data such as memory utilisation, cpu consumption. Grafana's feature to allow alert setup and integrations with pagerduty and splunk oncall really easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some bugs in Grafana, so not as refined as paid software like Newrelic. One more issue is that it doesn't provide alerting history if we want to review at the end of the week, so we had to rely on splunk for a report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data visualisation platforms are extremely pricey, but opensource tools like grafana paired with Promethues work wonders for small companies. Since we can host grafana on our servers we can keep sensitive data private.
Helps to monitor the performance of serverless core, like, doctors and containers
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
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.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We've never had an outage with Grafana, and its stability is very nice.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 25 to 30 people are using Grafana in our organization.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Grafana, we previously used different solutions like PRTG and OpenNMS.
How was the initial setup?
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.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Free, Powerful and customizable
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility of monitoring everything aspect of your CPU, firewall network, container and VPS or other. For server maintenance or to understand an application's traffic (my case) is a beneficial tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Grafana doesn't work in real-time. The customization is an infinite possibility, but Grafana should provide some default equations for us. Also, you need to understand a bit more about how to config Prometheus and Node Exporter.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Grafana helps us to monitor the stress of our apps and local servers.
Grafana for monitoring system
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to see multiple data points on a single screen, with ability to setup granular alerting rules.
What do you dislike about the product?
Alert management and tracking not upto the mark.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One stop point for looking over resources utilization for containers.
One of best Monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
SErvice provide by grafana Dashboard helps to make system stable and up.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI is not user friendly It can be improved in explore screen
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me to monitor my system, its usage disk space resources status and also I can see my applications log.
Grafana
What do you like best about the product?
I like that there are sections I can access for specific information such as account search, wallet history, purchase history and I can also filter the dates and even the timezone
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that each section that can be accessed has to be accessed at a different window, I feel like it would be best if all these things can be accessed without opening a new tab each time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves many problems and different problems for different queries. I am able to review account information I need to answer my players efficiently with all the information necessary.
Grafana for Monitoring your Services
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interactive visualization features such as charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. Also, the KPI param can be created for our custom usage and monitor the activities for prod application alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited data type visualizations such as count, numbers and time duration. This can be improved and allow the users to add more customized dashboards for their needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Grafana to monitor my Spring application health by exposing metrics to Prometheus and then to the Grafana, Also created Kafka metrics and custom graphs for my needs.
Grafana. Indispensable Grafana
What do you like best about the product?
The first and primary function of Grafana for me is the delivery of real-time metrics. Even a fast glance into its dashboards lets me estimate our product performance and conduct quick investigations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes advantages become drawbacks. In order to edit some table or graph, I used to ask my colleagues if they could help create the SQL query. Editor mode isn't much more convenient than query mode. The improvement of this feature could make Grafana more useful for users who are not so familiar with SQL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Grafana helps me to monitor our product performance. We can easily find any Prod operations incidents. Early and in-time Grafana alerts let us minimize our losses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You should know precisely what do you want from Grafana. And Grafana will surely reward.
Powerful monitoring and reporting tool when used with Prometheus
What do you like best about the product?
I am just starting out evaluating it and have used the AWS Grafana Managed Service. I like the integration with Prometheus and the visualization of promql queries
What do you dislike about the product?
The AWS version only supports alerting as a function of the query. I think this has been addressed in the latest version. Panels can be complex to configure for newbs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are looking to monitor a mixture of AWS instances and on-prem machines for our IaaS offering for troubleshooting, SLA compliance and reporting. It is not in production yet
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