We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Grafana over Azure Monitor as it offers highly customizable and visually appealing graphs, flexibility in integration with other tools, and is open-source. Although Grafana's customer service and support have mixed reviews, its ease of setup and moderate pricing make it a popular choice for data visualization and analytics.
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"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."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and New Relic, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Dynatrace, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Azure Monitor vs. Grafana report.
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