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."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"Great capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI."
"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 best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The formatting could be better."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"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 38 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 35th 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.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.