We performed a comparison between Grafana and Monte Carlo 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."Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"It has good stability."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"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."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while Monte Carlo is ranked 1st in Data Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Monte Carlo is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Monte Carlo writes "Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface. ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Monte Carlo is most compared with Datadog, Splunk APM, Dynatrace, Acceldata and Unravel Data.
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