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.
"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."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"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."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"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."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The default interface should be improved."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The formatting could be better."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
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 38 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, Prometheus, Sentry 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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