Grafana Valuable Features
The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good.
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Abdelkader Houchi
IT Analyst at Hydro Quebec
There is no agent to install. There are many dashboards also.
There is an active community where you can gather a lot of information about how the solution works. I come from Splunk. If I compare it with Splunk, Splunk has its own SPL, for example. You can play with the dashboard. There is some advantages in common with SPL. Visualization and collecting logs it's similar. However, Grafana is trying to cover many types of open-source infrastructure. This is why I appreciate Grafana versus, for example, Splunk.
The initial setup is not difficult.
It is a stable, reliable product.
View full review »The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly. Grafana has a huge community, so we can simply Google it and get the answer if we have any doubts.
The second best thing about Grafana is its alerting system, which is easy to define within Grafana rather than defining alerts in Prometheus.
Thirdly, Grafana is completely free of cost. I use Grafana for many things, and all of them at zero-dollar cost. On the other hand, other monitoring tools in the market, like New Relic and Datadog, offer many features, but Grafana is a good monitoring tool for a small-scale company.
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I like that you can add more graphs so developers can make changes to them. If you need to make a change to a graph, you just need to change the code. This is useful if you're working on something that requires a lot of graphics.
Additionally, Grafana is doing a great job with monitoring.
View full review »The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that.
View full review »Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature. Now they are leading many integration modules as well for RabbitMQ specifically. You will get a prebuilt dashboard. You have to configure the RabbitMQ, and you will have all the monitoring available. You don't have to actually develop a dashboard and identify what needs to be monitored.
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reviewer2132970
Information Technology Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We really only started.
So far, the management is very good.
The dashboards are very easy to work with.
It's a fantastic tool.
Support is helpful. There are many useful forums users can turn to as well.
It can scale.
The stability is good.
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Ganes Sankarlal
Senior Consultant at Tata Consultancy
I was using a restricted version of Grafana where I didn't have the option to create alerts and didn't have direct options to build dashboards. We used the already built-in dashboards there. Therefore, the most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool where we got better clarity on the issues to select the timeline and see the data or charts. So, the visualization tool is the most valuable feature I found.
View full review »The most valuable features are the user-friendly interface and the ability to connect with many data sets.
View full review »The dashboards are the most valuable features.
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Deepshikha Choudhary
Technical Lead at Capgemini
The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends to know if the traffic was low or okay. We could create week-over-week traffic and trend analysis as well. All these features were good and were the only features I used.
View full review »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. This allows us to better understand our data and the trends associated with it.
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reviewer1998342
Senior Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The solution is adaptable, easy to use, and works well for microservices development.
Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model.
View full review »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.
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Hasan Dawood
Cloud Engineer at REDtone Digital Services
One standout feature is its open-source nature. It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports. From a cost perspective, it stands out positively, especially when compared to other tools, given its robust functionality as an open-source solution.
View full review »The heat maps are great.
We like the dashboards on offer.
It's a stable product.
The solution can scale well.
Pricing isn't overly expensive.
Technical support is good.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data.
View full review »The comparison feature is very good.
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reviewer2126454
Backend Dev with 11-50 employees
It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier.
View full review »Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts.
View full review »The ability to create almost all kinds of graphs and visualize any kind of information in an appealing way is extremely useful to us.
The customizability of dashboards and widgets is impressive.
The flexibility in integration with other tools as data sources of data enriching tools has been great.
It is open-source, so it saves a lot on costs and the community is friendly and powerful.
The product can be used to cater to multiple use cases. Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable.
The ability to import and export dashboards saves us a lot of time for popular systems and dashboards.
View full review »The ability to use Grafana with Zabbix is a valuable feature for me. Zabbix provides me with alerts and information if something goes wrong, while Grafana offers a better dashboard that is more stable. If you know Grafana well, it can show you everything, like the uptime of different sources and other areas.
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Anmol Rai
Technical Consultant Project Lead at Capgemini
The solution provides more of a graphical representation so we can see any incoming requests, each and every functionality, and quickly know where the issue is. It's very helpful in terms of monitoring with respect to the market from a request to a response.
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reviewer2116467
Software Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
The solution provides good integration and accurate application metrics.
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SrikanthDoddi
Principal Member of Technical Staff at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There are multiple data fields we can create and graph models and gauge models. There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful.
The solution is stable.
Support is helpful.
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Alper Yasemin
Director of Software Development at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The alerts feature is very good as is the dashboard visualization. We count our orders and if there's a decrease we send alerts. They are useful.
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Helmut Arnold
Product Owner at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch.
We like the features, it's a basic dashboard.
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reviewer2069535
Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable.
View full review »The query patch is the most valuable feature. We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization.
View full review »Grafana is great when it comes to capacity planning and the solution has a great GUI. It's a very rich product.
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Chamseddine Smirani
Infrastructure & System Administrator at a tech company with 1-10 employees
Grafana has such features that it need not exist on other products.
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reviewer1944924
IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The solution's application server is easy to use and its overall architecture is better for development.
It is easy to change and move virtual servers.
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reviewer2176404
Works at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability. Currently, we use the CEMA format to classify alarms according to the callers. For instance, critical alarms are displayed in red, warnings in yellow, and announcement alarms in green. We use Grafana for the formatting of alarms.
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Saurabh Patange
Network Monitoring Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The most valuable features in this solution are the dashboard, templating, and annotations.
View full review »- Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs.
- Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams.
- Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools (like Zabbix, Nagios, Slack, etc.).
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Grafana
March 2024
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