We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Grafana based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Grafana over Azure Monitor as it offers highly customizable and visually appealing graphs, flexibility in integration with other tools, and is open-source. Although Grafana's customer service and support have mixed reviews, its ease of setup and moderate pricing make it a popular choice for data visualization and analytics.
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"Technical support is helpful."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"It is a stable solution."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The price could be lower but it is not a must."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"Enhancing and reaching a level of detail that facilitates pinpointing and addressing issues at such a refined level within the application and database components would be helpful."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus and New Relic, whereas Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Dynatrace, Elastic Observability and Honeycomb.io. See our Azure Monitor vs. Grafana report.
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