--- title: "Grafana Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Grafana. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Grafana is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/reporting-tools/grafana-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Reporting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/reporting-tools/) / [Grafana](https://www.softwareadvice.com/reporting-tools/grafana-profile/) / Grafana Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/reporting-tools/grafana-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/reporting-tools/grafana-profile/alternatives/) # Grafana User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 73 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Customer support: 3.9/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 47 reviews (64%) - 4 stars: 24 reviews (33%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - I like that everything is in one place, so I can move from a high-level dashboard to specific logs without switching between multiple tools. - The dashboards are also responsive and make it much easier to spot problems than reading raw logs alone. - Grafana is a great tools that helps me get real time track on CPU and memory use when I do my Data Science development. ### Most mentioned cons - Theres quite a lot of premade dashboards out there, not all are very good. - It's not possible to make granular permissions in the versions we use. - 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) ## Grafana customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 73 (page 1). ### Grafana - Great monitoring tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sanchita J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Experience was good , using this tool for complete and time to time monitoring of servers utilization and to see the graphs in different phases. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Easy to see insights of any deployed web server. - Setup is very easy with ease to monitor and high quality visualisation option. #### Cons Little messed up as compare to other products which is available in market. --- ### Experience with Grafana - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Carlos Hugo Martin C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Se ha utilizado Grafana para generar dashboards de monitoreo, pudiendo centralizar las métricas de distintas soluciones de monitoreo como Prometheus, Zabbix, etc. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ability to generate visually attractive, efficient dashboards that help the operations area understand what is happening on the monitored platforms. #### Cons 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. #### Reasons for choosing Grafana For the price and flexibility of Grafana when generating dashboards. #### Reasons for switching to Grafana Grafana is more flexible when it comes to generating dashboards, plus it has more integration options. --- ### Grafana for proof of concept - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Low-code software that is very easy to create meaningful visualizations and dashboards that can be deployed in a real-life scenario within a few hours. #### Cons The dark mode colours can be a bit dull and the UI can be improved a lot more. #### Reasons for switching to Grafana The price was cheaper for creating proof of concepts --- ### Visualization for your data - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall we have been able to accomplish something we never have before and track trends and pin point possible issues. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons Getting the dashboards built out exactly how you want can sometimes be difficult. #### Reasons for choosing Grafana The cost of Grafana (free) was easier to swallow than the hefty quote from Datadog --- ### Metric Dashboard - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tony P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very intuitive and well designed. Good product for network devices monitoring and gauge. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Nice graphical dashboard panel that show network device utilization, data and stats including time stamps which can be download. #### Cons 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. #### Reasons for choosing Grafana Graphs which show precise metric performance for network utilization and easy viewing and understanding for the upper management . A good presentation graphical report using JSON. --- ### Data visualization with Grafana - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Javvad H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall Grafana is very user friendly and at the same time stands well when compared to other major visualization tools. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. #### Reasons for switching to Grafana Power BI gives limited functionality to share the dashboards, and owing to IT policies restrictions to not use the cloud for sensitive data, Grafana offered good options to share locally on company LAN network. --- ### Flexible dashboard and logs collection tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Er Avinash P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Highly preferred tool for monitoring, log collection and analyse of the events. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Best in collecting logs of the events. Completely reliable in management of notification, time, and alerts. Automated tracking dashboard for instant review. #### Cons Not easy to start with , tricky panel and features. --- ### Best software for monitoring dashboards - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Belmin K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons Some configurations might be difficult if you are new on Linux. --- ### Metrics + Visualization + Alerts = Bliss - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jason Taylor F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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). #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### Great tool for visualation - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Prashant D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It can be integrate with many other tools easily like as Zabbix, elk, Prometheus, precona #### Cons good application deployed on production enviourment --- ### Utilization analysing tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Amitabh P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We are using this to monitor whole infrastructure utilization and it is absolutely helpful to work with. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 1. Impresive graphics and dashboard. 2. With timestamp searching logs and analyzing the scenario is super easy. 3. Rich visualisations from different data sources to understand health metrics. #### Cons Usage of Grafana is little tricky for new comes. --- ### One of the best analytics and visualization tools that every team should have - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Álvaro G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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 #### Cons 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) #### Reasons for choosing Grafana We needed to display data, with free software, from different sources other than Elasticsearch and Grafana allowed us to do this in an easier and user-friendly way --- ### A great visualization Monitoring Tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sabarish S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons The process can be made more user friendly and KEDB can be improved. --- ### Data visualization very good - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the data visualization part because it is very to understand all graphs. #### Cons I like all the features but Grafana's latest version, they have rolled out the graph (old) feature. --- ### Visualization at top notch - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gourav u. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Gambling & Casinos - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best part i love most is it support multiple datasource to provide visualization .It supports lot of data matrix and result is accurate. #### Cons There is nothing bad about it as it has all the features we need. --- ### Un avis sur Grafana - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Oluwa Locheyi H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Grafana est un logiciel qui me permet de visualiser des données. Il me permet de créer également des tableau de bord de graphique très bien conçu et organisé. #### Cons Grafana ne présente pas d'inconvénients à ce que je ne sache pour le moment. --- ### Grafana_02-07-2022 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Osman D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I forked it and i use it on timeseries data reporting. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is unrivaled to monitoring and reporting time series data. #### Cons it has no multi language support and it has need to improvement visual query builder. --- ### The most advances data visualization tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Martin P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Perfect tool for big data services which allow visualization in various graphs and tables. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons It can be hard to understand queries to visualize data. Also you need some knowledge to deploy this product and configure collectors. --- ### Grafana log monitoring - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Hyma Roshini G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Able to monitore the error logs and debugging #### Cons Takes time more sometimes to load the logs --- ### Review for Grafana - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Aldo C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros i like the metrics and alerts did you can configure also you can show the graphic in like a real-time #### Cons in some cases configuring all metrics is very difficult because Grafana has a lot of options #### Reasons for choosing Grafana graphite --- ### Grafana Monitoring - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its show attractive dashboards and lots of feature to maintain it #### Cons it alerting system should be improve more --- ### A very nice tool for data visualisations - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Juraj T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's a great tool that will help you to put your data into perspective in a nice and organized way. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really like the UI and overall style of the tool. We were able to customize it so it shows all the important stats and our whole team understands them. #### Cons There are sometimes issues fetching the data and we need to refresh it a couple of times. --- ### Great data visualization/monitoring tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Yuko H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Grafana is a great monitoring tool that visualizes metrics very well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Grafana visualizes metrics very well. We use it to see our Swarm servers performance and we can tell which serves has more/less free memory, their CPU usage, their disk usage easily. #### Cons It doesn't support log analysis but it's ok for us. --- ### A useful to monitor the backend. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Dasser B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It's an ok experience for me as a Mobile Software Engineer. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like monitoring via graphs and statistics concerning endpoints, like what are the most failing endpoints. #### Cons As a Mobile Software Engineer, it wasn't user friendly for me when it comes to using Grafana and trying to investigate issues via querying big data logs. --- ### Excellent dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting production systems - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Hrithik V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Grafana has been a reliable part of my day-to-day workflow. I use it regularly to monitor services, investigate production issues, review logs, and verify system health after deployments or configuration changes. The dashboards are also responsive and make it much easier to spot problems than reading raw logs alone. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Grafana has become one of the tools I use most when troubleshooting production issues. The dashboards make it easy to monitor services, check latency, inspect logs, and quickly understand what's happening across different components. I like that everything is in one place, so I can move from a high-level dashboard to specific logs without switching between multiple tools. #### Cons There are a lot of dashboards and options, so it can take some time to learn where everything lives. Some dashboards are also very specific to a team's setup, so new users may need a little guidance before they become productive. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/reporting-tools/grafana-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Grafana Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice