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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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.
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
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.
Grafana - graphs for performance analysis
What do you like best about the product?
1. Supports different data sources like Prometheus, MySQL, InfluxDB etc.
2. Zoom in, zoom out and date range filtering applies to all the panels present in the dashboard, which helps in comparative analysis.
3. Different types of graphs like Gauge chart, Pi chart, Bar chart, line chart etc with interactive user interface is very useful.
4. Interpreting huge amount of data on garphs is made easy with different colours and tool tips.
2. Zoom in, zoom out and date range filtering applies to all the panels present in the dashboard, which helps in comparative analysis.
3. Different types of graphs like Gauge chart, Pi chart, Bar chart, line chart etc with interactive user interface is very useful.
4. Interpreting huge amount of data on garphs is made easy with different colours and tool tips.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integrating with data sources that involves configuring data sources and connectors can be complex and time-consuming for non-technical person.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in a networking company, visualizing the performance of different components is very vital for easy detection of any problems in the network. So we have KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) which help in understanding components. Along with Prometheus time series database, we use Grafana for displaying KPIs over a time period.
A stable solution that enables seamless visualization and movement of data between teams
How has it helped my organization?
Our team used a Grafana for training.
What is most valuable?
The comparison feature is very good.
What needs improvement?
The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for six to seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
How was the initial setup?
The solution was deployed with Kubernetes. The deployment took an hour to complete. It is not difficult to maintain as Kubernetes gives easy updates.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am using the open source version.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Good dashboard features and provides excellent customization
What is our primary use case?
My main use case is the dashboard. For example, we have screens created in the last step, and we integrate Grafana with that so that we can see the dashboards with the data. What does the traffic look like? What do the errors look like? So the is our main use case.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in terms of stability.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for more than a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability an eight out of ten because sometimes I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have never had any issues with scalability.
Everyone in our organization uses this solution. So, we have over 10,000 end users.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. You simply see what you want to do. You want to add a row. You want to add a panel. So it's easy for me to set it up.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Grafana Dashboards
What do you like best about the product?
The dash boards are well versed and can be easily modified to get the details of issue or required data be it 5xx errors or any other related queries
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no such thing to dislike all seems good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing real time data
Queries to customise dashboard
Monitoring of services health
Queries to customise dashboard
Monitoring of services health
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.
A Highly Effective Open Source Observability Platform
What do you like best about the product?
- open source observability platform
- It is very adaptable and expandable
- Large user and contributor community.
- It provides several visualization choices, including charts, graphs, tables, and maps.
- It is simple to use and understand
- It is very adaptable and expandable
- Large user and contributor community.
- It provides several visualization choices, including charts, graphs, tables, and maps.
- It is simple to use and understand
What do you dislike about the product?
- It may be difficult to set up and configure, particularly in big deployments.
- It can be time-consuming, particularly for big dashboards with elaborate visualisations.
- The community's response time to concerns might be sluggish.
- Grafana's user interface is not as pleasant as that of certain other observability programs, such as Datadog and New Relic.
- It can be time-consuming, particularly for big dashboards with elaborate visualisations.
- The community's response time to concerns might be sluggish.
- Grafana's user interface is not as pleasant as that of certain other observability programs, such as Datadog and New Relic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Grafana Labs is a strong open source observability platform that is ideal for businesses of all sizes. It is very adaptable and expandable, with a big user and contributor community. However, it may be difficult to set up and configure, and it can be resource-intensive in big installations.
An open-source solution used to build custom dashboards
What is our primary use case?
I have used Grafana mainly to build custom dashboards. We haven't got Grafana Enterprise due to billing issues. I have used Grafana, installing it physically on a server to build custom dashboards using plug-ins. I have used Enterprise Grafana cloud for many integrations, like RabbitMQ, JMSQs, and datasets. We are mainly focused on dashboards and not on alerting.
What is most valuable?
Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature. Now they are leading many integration modules as well for RabbitMQ specifically. You will get a prebuilt dashboard. You have to configure the RabbitMQ, and you will have all the monitoring available. You don't have to actually develop a dashboard and identify what needs to be monitored.
What needs improvement?
Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve. We used Azure for our alerts and Grafana purely as a dashboard tool.
The solution's stability needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Grafana for three to four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have come across multiple issues with Grafana, like getting shut down automatically, the process getting killed, etc. Grafana, on a main level, is good, but the stability of the underneath platform supporting Grafana's UI needs to be improved.
I rate Grafana an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
While using the Grafana open-source version, scalability will definitely be a big challenge because you are not using an enterprise version. Grafana's open-source version is not scalable. It's useful for small use cases and specific use cases. Using the Grafana open-source version will be challenging if you want to deploy a hundred applications and bring up a hundred dashboards for different reasons. While it is possible to do, you will end up having issues.
How are customer service and support?
For open source, Grafana does not have technical support. It has an open forum where you can post your questions, and they will respond to you. However, their response on the open forum was good. Being an open-source solution, having a big community to support is an added advantage compared to other tools.
How was the initial setup?
Grafana's deployment takes around two hours. It's not super complicated, and it's pretty straightforward. Everything is available on the internet. You can browse the internet and get a bunch of documents to complete the deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Since Grafana is an open-source solution, it is free of cost.
What other advice do I have?
It's very good to start with the open source and very seamless. You can directly connect your data sources to the solution. You won't have to worry about managing the Grafana UI because Grafana comprises two things, namely, the data source where you are connecting and the dashboard. Getting started with Grafana Cloud is good because it's very seamless, good, and helpful. If you want to scale and use Grafana as an observability tool, I would say you have to think twice before choosing it because there are a lot of gaps, especially on the APM side of its application and performance monitoring side. The infrastructure gets complex as it scales. For a small use case, for independent use cases, or for building simple dashboards, I recommend Grafana.
With Grafana's open-source, you download a package, put it in your server, and run it. I've used Grafana Cloud as well. For Grafana open-source, the login is limited to two or three people. More people cannot log in, and you can create multiple users. You can create around five to six dashboards and use 10 to 12 plugins. If you have just one or two use cases to be used, like if you have order delivery and you are looking for a tool, Grafana is a great one because the integration is pretty simple.
Overall, I rate Grafana a nine out of ten.
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