I use Grafana since it is interconnected with Zabbix. I also use Grafana for the dashboard of machines from VMware and for some network devices connected to Zabbix.
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Best Observability Viewability Tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Great Dashboards with a bunch of different panels Variety
- Officially provides a lot of built-in dashboards
- Wide variety of Datasource compatible
- Explore option provides logging, tracing, and matrices
- Great integration with Loki and Mimir
- Officially provides a lot of built-in dashboards
- Wide variety of Datasource compatible
- Explore option provides logging, tracing, and matrices
- Great integration with Loki and Mimir
What do you dislike about the product?
- Alerting via Grafana needs bit of improvement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- With the help of Metric based dashboards we get in-depth Monitoring
- We get to stream logs with Loki on Grafana
- We also get tracing in Grafana via Tempo
- Debugging issue becomes easier
- Helps in Testing and Optimization
- We get to stream logs with Loki on Grafana
- We also get tracing in Grafana via Tempo
- Debugging issue becomes easier
- Helps in Testing and Optimization
Monitor your application
What do you like best about the product?
Consulidate all your application metrics in one place and display using different dashboard helping you to monitor your application perfomance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Use of Json for some dashboard can be pretty tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps in monitor application performance, memory usuasge, request througput in different dashbaords.
A tool that users can understand and learn quickly to use
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The ability to use Grafana with Zabbix is a valuable feature for me. Zabbix provides me with alerts and information if something goes wrong, while Grafana offers a better dashboard that is more stable. If you know Grafana well, it can show you everything, like the uptime of different sources and other areas.
What needs improvement?
I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation. There is a problem in the area of some graphs where you connect elements. With Grafana, there is only one name that can be included for ten hours. In Grafana, only one big field with one text name is shown in the documentation. When it comes to production, it is only for a period of time that some fields on each side give the information they have. I researched on Google and other forums and saw that people face problems when they can't connect a field with the same value. The aforementioned area in the tool needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for nine months. I am a customer of the product.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have always had a stable version of the product. In general, I have not had any issues with the product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The technical personnel in my company use the tool, and it is possible to add or delete devices and other statuses in the solution. Around five people in my company use the product.
How are customer service and support?
I have always used the online forums or the internet to find information related to the product. I have not contacted the tool's technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
For me, Grafana is a cheap tool because I don't have to spend much time learning the product since it is a simple solution. I don't know if there are different paid versions of the product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My company chose Grafana over other products in the market considering its integration capabilities with Zabbix, good documentation, and the many topics about the tool that are available on the internet.
What other advice do I have?
I would suggest Grafana to those who use Zabbix because it helps users get a lot of information on networks and resolve a lot of problems.
I could do everything in Grafana with the help of graphs and documentation and get information on different types of devices.
I rate the overall tool an eight to nine out of ten.
Used in for business insights
What do you like best about the product?
It's flexibility, being able to visualise almost anything
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the panels are designed to work with Prometheus or other grafana owned data sources, and don't work great with bespoke / SQL data sources
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to see all our data quickly, in 1 place
Grafana integration
What do you like best about the product?
The visualisation of dashboards on a large screen allows us to have a clear indication of issues and problems. The frequency of use is daily for us and it's important to have integration with all of our systems
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a steep learning curve, not just the product but all of the different connections that it supports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had no observable dashboards, no single pane of glass as it were. This allow us to have a rolling set of dashboards covering applications and services, allowing proactive monitoring of SLAs as well as KPIs for staff
Easy to set up monitoring solution that could improve its end-point monitoring
What is our primary use case?
In my company, we regularly use it to monitor the status of our running reports, CPU usage, memory applications, and other relevant metrics.
What needs improvement?
The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring. Due to this requirement, we faced challenges in fetching details related to endpoint monitoring. We are considering the implementation of better tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for the past two and a half years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company.
How are customer service and support?
I’m not involved with contacting customer service.
How was the initial setup?
The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.
It is a very good open source platform for centralizing logs, but requires knowledge to operate it
What do you like best about the product?
The upsides of this solution is that it is an open-source solution, which provides wide integration to most of systems through such protocols as CEF, syslog.
What do you dislike about the product?
It requires expertise or good knowledge to use or operate it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to visualize the performance metrics of most of the systems in our organization.
Monitor the performance of your infra and make better decisions with grafana labs
What do you like best about the product?
Grafana comes with very rich visualisations from different data sources which makes it easier for you to understand health metrics of your system even if you variety of data sources.With grafana labs you can easily send alerts if your set threshhold is breached to different channels like slack, or mail or may be more, that helps you in quick anamoly detection and quick action for the resolution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Grafana is hard to setup, most of the tims for complex systems UI don't offer good support and need commad line text editing and there is a huge limitations for log analysis and which is not a very good option.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Grafana Labs solves the probelm of application, service and infra monitoring and which is very crucial as it helps you to understand your system and applicaitions better, you can set much better threshholds and make your services more robust. With grafana we were able to set a lot of alerts and which helped us to avoid a lot of potential downtimes just but making action faster.
An open-source analytics and monitoring platform that excels in flexible data visualization and diverse data source integration, but may require improvement in automating daily reports
What is our primary use case?
We use it internally to monitor both hardware and virtual machines running on our servers and then generate reports based on the monitoring data.
What is most valuable?
One standout feature is its open-source nature. It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports. From a cost perspective, it stands out positively, especially when compared to other tools, given its robust functionality as an open-source solution.
What needs improvement?
There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations. This enhancement would make the monitoring tool more efficient and streamlined. While it does produce reports, the quality might not be optimal.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have approximately two years of experience working with it.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't encountered any issues or bugs while using it, and it has been stable throughout.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Numerous users, ranging from five hundred to a maximum of three hundred, frequently engage in upscaling and downscaling activities. The system handles this well, and the performance remains stable, even when multiple users log in and out simultaneously.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is not overly complicated nor excessively straightforward. It's a manageable process that involves following a step-by-step approach.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's free of cost; it operates as an open-source tool.
What other advice do I have?
It is recommended for use, and in parallel, WebEx is another open-source tool. Both are straightforward to deploy on a Linux server. The process is simple and similar to each other, and there's no need for any complex procedures. Deploying these monitoring tools on a Linux server is hassle-free. Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Grafana Labs helps visualize Kubernetes metrics
What do you like best about the product?
I loved that Grafana had custom created dashboards that we could save and recreate with the Grafana API. It was easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
Modifying the grafana.ini file to bypass user login in an embedded dashboard was difficult, and debugging was difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Grafana creates very pretty dashboards for the metrics that we scraped. It saved us a lot of time.
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