We performed a comparison between Grafana and Honeycomb.io 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."The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Sentry, Chronosphere, New Relic, Azure Monitor and Datadog.
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