We use the tool to monitor metrics on dashboards.
Grafana Enterprise
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Why you should use Grafana for office dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
I used it to create automated tracking dashboard for satelltie altitude and status.
What do you dislike about the product?
It was a bit confusing at the begining since I worked with local CSV as database, but I evantually was able to integrate it into my project after I got some answers from customer suport.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It lets me track and monitor my system easily.
Can monitor metrics on dashboards but needs to have own query language
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It's easy to make changes. We can put many dashboards in one place. There's no delay in showing data - what you see on Grafana matches the server metrics.
What needs improvement?
Grafana could improve by having its own query language. Currently, it uses languages like Prometheus or InfluxDB, which not everyone knows. Their query language should be easier.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, our on-premises version was mixed, but the cloud version is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
My company has 2000 users.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up Grafana is moderately difficult, especially writing query languages and custom metrics. Creating custom metrics requires writing new query language at the server level, which can be challenging.
What other advice do I have?
If you want to use Grafana for the first time, I'd say you can. It's cost-effective compared to other products like Datadog. But if cost isn't an issue, I'd recommend Datadog. For beginners, learning to use Grafana is moderately difficult. I rate it a seven out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Google
Best data visualization tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Grafana is very useful for visualizing and analyze vast quantities of data from a simple web interface. Also, it allows to view data in real time with Grafana Live, feature that we use a lot to debug problems in our systems.
It supports many types of data sources, but I think it’s best used with InfluxDB.
It supports many types of data sources, but I think it’s best used with InfluxDB.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not allow you to customize the list of predefined time periods. So every time you need to see a specific interval, you need to input the period of time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allowed us to visualize data from the sensors in our infrastructure in real time
Easy tool for monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
The notification tool, you can link with slack :D, that's useful if we reconigze the errors in our projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
No docs in spanish :c something when you are setting the dashboards should be good have more docs about it or docs about to implement Grafana with languages like JS, I know grafana use influxdb to save the data, but examples of that would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Have one place with all relative information, this before use the graphs provided by AWS
Provides good alerts and is useful for monitoring user traffic and visualizing metrics
What is our primary use case?
We use it to monitor user behavior. We have AI LLM models in NVIDIA Triton. NVIDIA Triton gives us some metrics. These metrics are integrated with Grafana and Prometheus. We monitor user traffic to visualize metrics like p99 latency, increase in user and CPU performance, utilization of the GPUs, RAM utilization, and CPU utilization.
What is most valuable?
We use the free templates of the solution. We have tested some alerts on metrics. We like the alert features. We plan to use it more. Slack and PagerDuty alerts in Grafana are helpful.
What needs improvement?
It was pretty complicated to integrate the product into our workflow. We relied on templates we found on the GitHub open-source repositories. It is pretty hard to integrate Grafana and set it up according to our use case. The solution must provide tutorials and guides.
We are a small team. We don't have the time to learn Grafana end-to-end, but we want some guides to help us use it quickly. Prebuilt templates will help a lot. The product must provide more alerting metrics. It must be integrated with iOS and Android mobile phones.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for four months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool’s stability is quite good. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s scalability a six out of ten. Scaling is complex. We have four developers in the organization who use the product.
How was the initial setup?
We have good Docker experience, so the setup was pretty straightforward. We had to run a couple of Docker commands. We integrated everything with Docker Compose. As we scale up, the setup will get complicated. If the number of users increases, we might consider switching to the cloud.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Compared to Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, and Logstash, Grafana is pretty strong. Grafana is way ahead of its competitors. SigNoz is also an alternative to Grafana and Prometheus. SigNoz is pretty easy to set up.
What other advice do I have?
We haven't worked or dived deep into the documentation and tutorial. I will recommend the product to users willing to take the time and patience to set up and learn Grafana in-depth. There are a lot of tools that we can use to build excellent integrations and get the most out of them with little knowledge. However, to leverage the value of Grafana and Prometheus, we must learn the tools in depth. It will save us time, and we can get much value if we invest time and effort. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Amazingly easy to use and visually appealing
What do you like best about the product?
We are using Grafana to build visualizations for many types of data on our systems. The basic usage is of course DevOps DevOps-related graphs and visuals, but we are also using it to display line of business data dashboards. Grafana is easy to set up, easy to use, and produces high-quality graphs and dashboards. Its ability to connect to multiple data sources is an important feature, as well as the ability to extend it using external plug-ins.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I find less appealing is the pricing of the enterprise version and the fact that some important plugins are only available on the enterprise or cloud versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Grafana mostly to build and display visualizations and dashboards of our line of business data. While this is not the common use of Grafna it does the job very well and in many cases better than other tools in the market. We have many kinds of dashboards used by different stakeholders in the company and we are able to use them daily to keep track of our business results.
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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?
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.
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
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