We performed a comparison between Grafana and Monte Carlo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"It has good stability."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The solution should include online support."
"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."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Monte Carlo is ranked 1st in Data Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Monte Carlo is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Monte Carlo writes "Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface. ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas Monte Carlo is most compared with Datadog, Splunk APM, Acceldata, Dynatrace and Unravel Data.
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