We use Grafana as an APM solution to monitor the performance of our serverless core, like, doctors and containers.
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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.
Provides good integration and generates application metrics efficiently
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for login and creating dashboards.
What is most valuable?
The solution provides good integration and accurate application metrics.
What needs improvement?
The solution's interface could be more accessible.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using the solution for three years.
How are customer service and support?
I refer to the solution's online documentation in case of technical errors.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup process is complicated. Its complexity depends on the use cases. Also, as it is self-hosted on Grafana cloud, it requires minimum maintenance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive. Although, its price depends on infrastructure.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the solution a nine.
Gain exceptional visuals and insights with Grafana
What do you like best about the product?
I'm most impressed with how Grafana allows us to visualize and understand complex relationships between data that were previously difficult to see. The detailed analytics generated by the platform allow us to anticipate our needs for an optimal user experience, such as monitoring server performance levels or tracking temperature and humidity in a data center environment. By using these graphical representations of information, we can easily determine appropriate action plans to ensure the successful operation of any application landscape.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that Grafana's edit mode is inferior to its query mode, making it difficult for users unfamiliar with SQL to modify databases and graphs. A necessary improvement would be a more user-friendly editing interface so that non-expert users can make their own changes without having to ask someone else for help in writing the necessary query.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm benefiting from using Grafana because I can monitor and analyze the data collected by my various IoT sensors in real time. And thanks to its intuitive interface, setting up graphs with different configurations is just a click away.
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.
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What do you like best about the product?
Grafanna is very useful in visualizing key metrics for our system we have been using its dashboards for various monitorings
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes it takes time to load which is a downside of using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Graffana is helping us to visualize a lot of key metrices and APIs of our system which in turn is very helpful in maintaining system health and stability
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.
Grafana -Best Visualization Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's the best visualisation tool to analyse any metrics or data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't aggregate data from multiple sources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To Analyse the issue and check the previous metrics Help in RCA also .
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.
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What do you like best about the product?
We can add alerting on the logs exceptions in grafana and add any media to receive that error log as an alert, and we are using squadcast for central alerting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Recently we faced an issue while writing the query to fetch the logs either from Loki or other sources it always shows an error, we updated the grafana version as well, but still, it is not resolved. It is very frustrating sometime.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily see the application or Kubernetes pod logs over the grafana UI using the promtail. This is a time saver for the support team to check the logs even without access to Kubernetes clusters. That increase the security of cluster as well.
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