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.
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"I am monitoring all of my Azure Monitor and getting good reports. I can customize the reports to get the information I need. I am also getting emails about which AAS instances are down and everything in the system related to my services. It is easy to use, scalable, and user-friendly. Microsoft has Many guides and videos to help you understand how to create and use Azure Monitor."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The solution can scale well."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"It is a stable solution."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"The solution should include online support."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"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's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
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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