Grafana

Why we have to use Grafana?

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

insight and understanding into your application

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

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

Review of Grafana

Pros:

Grafana is a great tools that helps me get real time track on CPU and memory use when I do my Data Science development.

Cons:

Grafana doesn't implement tracking for each process. It was implemented with Jupyter but it doesn't tell the CPU and Memory used by each notebook that is currently running.

Grafana for proof of concept

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.

Grafana - Great monitoring tool

Comments: Experience was good , using this tool for complete and time to time monitoring of servers utilization and to see the graphs in different phases.

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.

Review from college - Howest

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Flexible dashboard and logs collection tool

Comments: Highly preferred tool for monitoring, log collection and analyse of the events.

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.

Create useful dashboards with Grafana

Comments: Grafana helps me a lot to keep en eye on what's happening on my systems.
Above all I use the Stat Visualization with 3 levels of threshold

Pros:

I use Grafana to have better visualization on what's happening about metrics collected by Zabbix server and Graylog Server (just add the data source). With Grafana I can create several dashboards that contain different kind of panels: bars, gauges, numbers -called stat- (changing colour if a threshold is reached), graphs, logs... Just add the metric you want to be displayed. With these informations displayed on a large monitor anyone can be alerted when a value is out of range in an easy and effective way. There are additional plugins available to better customize your panel. Grafana runs on linux, the installation is easy and quick. You can easily find documentation on internet.

Cons:

some plugins are in beta or don't work as expected

Best Tool for IT metrics

Comments: My experience has been invaluable, and it is nice to be able to tune it for live alerts and catch issues before users even know about it.

Pros:

The vast amount of components you can configure via code or in Grafana itself makes itself a swiss army knife for reporting and metrics, from API and UI level to server level.

Cons:

It is complex to learn compared to other reporting tools.

Utilization analysing tool

Comments: We are using this to monitor whole infrastructure utilization and it is absolutely helpful to work with.

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.

Grafana Dashboard review

Comments: In the usecase, Grafana was used to visualise and monitor data from different sources

Pros:

It is an open source visualisation and monitoring tool. You can load your data from hundreds of different data sources and can start visualising and monitoring your data. There are many helper plugins available to download that make the experince even smoother. You can also perform basic data manipulation and based on the formatted data, you also get suggestions for visulaisation

Cons:

The one thing that could be improved is the integration with csv files and other file formats. Since the plugin that is available also has limited functionality, any development in this direction would be helpful for many users

Best software for monitoring dashboards

Comments: 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.

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.

Works as expected

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Grafana review

Pros:

Grafana makes it easy building dashboards for pods in a microservice architecture.

Cons:

The learning curve and configuration complexity might be challenging for beginners.

Grafana : Good monitoring tool with better visualisation

Pros:

Graphical interface and the plugins available.

Cons:

Features and bugs. Have explored few plugins like oncall and slack integration, getting better with latest release.

Data visualization very good

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.

Grafana an easily accessible dashboard tool

Comments: I have used Grafana for the last few years to generate operational and control dashboards.

Pros:

It has many plugins and datasources that help to obtain information from different sources and to present it in many alternatives with the plugins.

Cons:

There are many plugins or datasources that must be paid for in the enterprise version.

Great tool for visualation

Pros:

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

Cons:

good application deployed on production enviourment

Visualization at top notch

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.

A great visualization Monitoring Tool

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.

Good tool for monitoring purpose

Comments: Overall, The Grafana is very simple and easily configuration tool. We can monitoring & visualize data with this tool also integrate with third party tool.

Pros:

- Easy to setup & configuration- User management is very good- Customize our own dashboard & graph- Send Alert notification when threshold value is up.- Easily understand & readable logs

Cons:

- Some feature is not working on free open source version- Limited data type visualizations such as count, numbers and time duration- Limited option & designs for create graph & dashboard

The most advances data visualization tool

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

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

Pros:

Able to monitore the error logs and debugging

Cons:

Takes time more sometimes to load the logs

The Great Visualization Tool

Pros:

I liked that Grafana is an open source platform that provides a rich set of features for visualizing and analyzing time-series data. It is highly customizable, allowing users to create custom dashboards and alerts.

Cons:

Although I don't have any complaints about Grafana, I suggest offering more plugin integration options for the free plans

Highly customizable open source monitoring tool

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.