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.
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"There are a lot of things that take more time to do, such as charting, alerting, and correlation of data, and things like that. Azure Monitor doesn't tell you why something happened. It just tells you that it happened. It should also have some type of AI. Environments and applications are becoming more and more complex every day with hundreds or thousands of microservices. Therefore, having to do a lot of the stuff manually takes a lot of time, and on top of that, troubleshooting issues takes a lot of time. The traditional method of troubleshooting doesn't really work for or apply to this environment we're in. So, having an AI-based system and the ability to automate deployments of your monitoring and configurations makes it much easier."
"The default interface should be improved."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"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."
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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