It's "The daily tool" to review, server status, service status, backups status. It's the 'must have' tool for viewing the status of servers.

It's very easy to mix different data and create different graphs. Now it's possible to make graphs and mix with images, SVG images. All of this in a very intuitive way.

It's not possible to make granular permissions in the versions we use.

Grafana was the first visualization tool we used with our students. We are still using it because it makes it possible to explain the whole visualisation process of data. Starting from getting data in a database to make realtime visualizations and error reporting possible. Due to real time visualization of the data, we can make savings in the company. Next to that we can make calculations of optimization possibilities of the campus (heat and electricity) which are very usefull to save more energy.

The ease of making visualizations with different data sources (ex. influx DB). Easy to make visualizations of energy datasets. We are visualizing all the energy data of the campus on real time base with Grafana. This is very useful to have an overview of the realtime consumption of the different sites. With Grafana we also implement upper and lower limits. When consumption is to high, we try to lower down the consumption of the different processes, depending of the price.

It is hard to make reports with Grafana. For this reason, for making reports we are using other tools and visualisation software. Next to that sometimes updates are making that some visualisations are not possible anymore. But over the time I use Grafana, it keeps getting better.

Visualising got easy to manage cloud monitoring services as able to integrate different clouds on the same dashboard. It can be easily configured with most Databases as Relational, Time-Series. The alert system is the most effective one which we can make use of in Grafana to set the Alerts and all.

The most I like to have this software used as its free to use and also its an open source software. Grafana consists of various kinds of authenticating methods and security level setup. It has a an alert and monitoring tool which keeps on updating after a threshold value for which is set. It has chances of new developments and API interaction, Creation of new measurements and demonstrating concerning different devices

Everything has a limit, as its Limits charts to Time Series, It is not self manageable. The dashboard also has a very limited organisation. The UI isnt that much effective, as its having a very limited designs. It has set its boundaries to time series only, as its not comparitively well organised with respect of other tools in the market such as Power BI etc...

Se ha utilizado Grafana para generar dashboards de monitoreo, pudiendo centralizar las métricas de distintas soluciones de monitoreo como Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.

The ability to generate visually attractive, efficient dashboards that help the operations area understand what is happening on the monitored platforms.

That different data sources cannot be used in the same graph at the same time, causing a visual comparison of the data to be difficult.

I am very happy with Grafana and it's dashboard and plotting variations of metricises.

In Grafana it's very easy to create the dashboard and plot the data at the same location from multiple resources. It supports many data sources like Prometheus and Influx database.

If we need to create custom dashboards, we need to learn JASON language.

With Grafana you get insight and understanding into your application, easy setup dashboards.

- dashboarding - insight into metrics, traces and logging - synthetics checks - K6 Load testing -Alerting

- licence is also user based - Learning curve is for developers

Overall we have been able to accomplish something we never have before and track trends and pin point possible issues.

The dashboards that are built with Grafana are very appealing. Everyone from basic users, high level management and Engineers find the data visualization extremely beneficial.

Getting the dashboards built out exactly how you want can sometimes be difficult.

Beautiful interface, easy deploy and perfect integration with my Zabbix server.I know if there are any problems in my infrastructure just by looking at the dashboard.

Easy deployment, integrates nicely with Zabbix and has many graphs for data visualization.I like the fact that I can customize a lot the dashboard.

Some configurations might be difficult if you are new on Linux.

It can be integrate with many other tools easily like as Zabbix, elk, Prometheus, precona

good application deployed on production enviourment

- API based dashboards for real time visibility - Easy setup of alerts with various channels - Email, PagerDuty,Slack

- None as of now. Would be great though if they can provide more insights onto logs too like ELK

As previously mentioned, we now use free Grafana instead of 6-figure $$$ monitoring software we used to pay for, and we can monitor more systems, customize better, and get more detail than we could get with that expensive software. We monitor current and historical performance and capacity on our Dell storage arrays (ECS, XtremIO, VxFlex), Unix/Linux operating systems, and VMWare vSphere. Surprisingly, it is easier to use and gives better dashboards insight than commercial products we have paid many thousands of dollars for. But, as stated before, to get the most out of this, you really need to put this in the hands of someone who understands the internals of what you are monitoring (OS and/or storage arrays), understands databases, and preferably someone who is good with coding.

Grafana is extremely highly customizable. You can create your own dashboards exactly how you want them. There are many plugins available online -- for us, there is a plugin for just about any storage array or operating system we want to monitor. We now use free Grafana instead of 6-figure $$$ monitoring software we used to pay for, and we can monitor more systems, customize better, and get more detail than we could get with that expensive software. Updates for Grafana are easy to find and install.

Since it is free and open source, there is no support, but you might be able to find some 3rd-party support you could pay for. You really need to put this in the hands of someone who understands the internals of what you are monitoring (OS and/or storage arrays), understands databases, and preferably someone who is good with coding to get the most out of the product.

Key features are its plugins, UI and monitoring aspects.Alerts and visualization makes this product unique and outstanding.Easily integrated with many software and can manage multiple servers.

The process can be made more user friendly and KEDB can be improved.

We deployed Grafana so we could get insights on all of our environments as well as alerts when something goes wrong. So far it has been doing great and we are planning to develop dashboards for other teams in the company.

Although dashboard creation might be difficult at first, once you get to know Grafana, creating pretty and useful dashboards is quick and easy. Being open source is also a great characteristic Grafana is easy to integrate with all the other tools and services your team might have, such as Slack, SQL databases, Elasticsearch databases, etc... Also, the alert monitoring feature is very useful, powerful and easy to configure

Grafana is a very complete but complex tool. The initial configuration is complex and cumbersome. Dashboard creation has a steep learning curve (although very short) and the creation of more complex dashboards requires knowledge of JSON. Also, when Grafana can get slow, specially when you try to render a lot of data at the same time (for example, months of 1s granular data)

Very intuitive and well designed. Good product for network devices monitoring and gauge.

Nice graphical dashboard panel that show network device utilization, data and stats including time stamps which can be download.

It doesn't have the ability to set multiple dates/ times graphs in a single panel for comparison purposes. Product might need to consider optional PDF along with CSV when download files.

Overall Grafana is very user friendly and at the same time stands well when compared to other major visualization tools.

Grafana gives the ability to produce beautiful data visualizations that offer realtime insights into the data set s thanks to its rich collection of graphs and visuals. It supports connectivity with numerous data sources like excel, csv, SQL etc. The created dashboards are opened in web browser that gives great opportunity to share and present on network operation centre main screen. The dashboards developed are scalable and flexible.

In the start it takes little bit of effort to come up with a visualization that you need to develop there on its fairly easy and scalable.

I forked it and i use it on timeseries data reporting.

It is unrivaled to monitoring and reporting time series data.

it has no multi language support and it has need to improvement visual query builder.

Grafana is brilliant for monitoring. I use it constantly as a quick and easy way to check metrics, system health, and third-party connectivity.

Grafana is a great monitoring front-end for surfacing metrics from a variety of sources. I use Grafana on a daily basis to monitor internal systems (e.g. number of WARNs and ERRORs in logs) and also third-party connectivity (e.g. response times). Absolutely invaluable.

Once dashboard are set up they're brilliant. My only complaint is that the initial setup isn't particularly intuitive. I guess that's because of the flexibility to pull data from a variety of sources. And if you have a similar example to copy then it's not so bad.

Easy for install with a lot of pluggins for made powerfull graphics

This software can connect with a lot of things, like mysql, postgres, zabbix. This made a powerfull tool for develop a nice dashboard to show any type of graphs.

You need to know the main principles of the conector you will use.

It has been a great tool for tracking the performance of some internal tools.

You can customize your dashboards as you wish, you can create your own or you can find one from the community.

The editor could be a little bit more visual and the UX can be improved.

We were looking to have multiple monitoring targets with good visualization to pipe out for both classical notifications and visualization. I can't say enough about the awesome visualizations; makes it so easy to demonstrate across teams when things are good (heart symbol), or when things are bad (giant spikes pushing over your happiness thresholds; dashed tolerance lines).

I love the customizable dashboards with the ability to zero in on specific time frames. The alert settings can be adjusted, the data sources can be customized, and the notifications can be customized. It's a very flexible tool and is open source.

The downside of having something so customizable is that you need to invest some time to get it to produce what you're looking for. It's worth the investment, but know ahead of time that it is a significant investment. Aside from setting up the data in and alerts out (and configuring the limits, etc.), you also need a storage solution if you want to keep a historical record; but this isn't super necessary since your data sources likely have storage solutions. Still, it would be nice to have a record of Grafana since that is where you've invested the time and congregated the data.

Grafana is a great tool offering connections to several types of data source (sql, postgresql, ...), allowing the user to query and plot the data. In addition, it provides the users with a dashboard where they can find all the visualizations they created such as graphs, tables and many more.

Despites its interesting features, Grafana is a bit complex to deploy and to utilize; it necessitates a bunch of expertise and information in a variety of fields. A complex dashboard, for example, requires competence in JSON.

The Amount of available Dashboards made from the Community or the Developer makes using grafana very easy. But also if you need to build your own Dashboard you can do it quite easy. Highlight is the Fusion of Data from several sources.

Innitial Installation can be a bit tricky, if not used in premade Docker Enviroment.

its a great support for my daily work. Easy to use. It's a keeper!

Its easy to use. There is multiple types of graphs to show whatever you need. It has an easy interface with Data Base, log browsers, etc.

I was not able to configure a null value when there is no metric for a specific point of time, just between another ones. So the graph shows a continuos line, but there should be an empty space in the middle

Use for our kubernetes service supervision and notification alarming

Thank to Grafana loki, we where able to put at the same place our service logs and prometeus metrics.

Grafana and Grafan loki are not easy to fine tune, and for a service dashboard you need to setup it your self. Fortunatly, for a majority of known service , an exsiting dashboard eventually already exist as template on grafana site.

Perfect tool for big data services which allow visualization in various graphs and tables.

Grafana is complete solution to collect data from services and visualize them in web application interface using various charts and tables. You are allowed to configure workers witch collect data from services like Apacha, Redis or etc. You can visualize metrics using special queries in Grafana language. Performance is furious also for big data projects.

It can be hard to understand queries to visualize data. Also you need some knowledge to deploy this product and configure collectors.