We performed a comparison between Grafana and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."It is a stable, reliable product."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"I have a problem with Grafana in the area of documentation."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The solution should include online support."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Lacks in-depth graphs and sufficient AI."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Sentry, Chronosphere, Datadog, Azure Monitor and New Relic.
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