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.
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"I am impressed by the reporting on the average eight ports that we get from this solution."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"It is a stable solution."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It has good stability."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"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."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"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."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The formatting could be better."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
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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