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's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"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."
"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."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"There is a need for improvement in automating daily monitoring reports, especially when alerts are triggered due to system downtimes or fluctuations."
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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