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."Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"We like the alert features."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"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, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Monte Carlo is most compared with Datadog, Splunk APM, Dynatrace, Acceldata and Unravel Data.
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