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Azure Monitor vs Grafana comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Monitor
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Monitoring Software (5th)
Grafana
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Azure Monitor is 7.5%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Grafana is 6.4%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Syed Abid  - PeerSpot reviewer
Monthly and weekly resource monitoring has improved efficiency
Azure Monitor can improve by adding some kind of storage for logs. I can get the runtime logs alone, yet if Azure Monitor can independently add one gigabyte, two gigabytes, or five gigabytes at least to log storage, I can fix the logs without syncing with Log Analytics Workspace and Sentinel. If they do that, and if they can integrate a little pricing adjustment, it will be profitable for the Microsoft tool.
Vikash-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Displays data visually from multiple sources while integrating seamlessly with existing systems
Grafana provides a user-friendly interface for viewing infrastructure metrics through dashboards. It integrates with Prometheus to pull data and offers a straightforward setup process. Users can monitor metrics with greater ease, and the tool aids in quickly identifying issues by providing a visual representation of data. Grafana's integration capability is straightforward, which facilitates building dashboards as needed.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"What I like about Azure Monitor is that it performs well."
"The solution has tons of valuable features."
"The overall product rating is nine out of ten."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"​Grafana has improved our analysis capability to solve an issue, increasing the co-working between IT services and business services.​"
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"We like the alert features."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"Visualisation: It is easy to create beautiful, understanding graphs, snapshots to share the graphs with people who do not have access to Grafana, and templating to create powerful graphs."
 

Cons

"The pricing model could be more flexible."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"The onboarding process of certain assets and the overall UI can be improved in Azure Monitor"
"Azure Monitor could improve by adding capabilities for data observability and integrating more tightly with their data platform components."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"The interface is not well-liked by my customers."
"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 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 formatting could be better."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Monitor's price is minimal to the point of being almost negligible."
"The tool is expensive."
"Azure Monitor is a competitively priced solution."
"The solution is a pay-as-you-go consumption service and is the least expensive in the market."
"I would rate Azure Monitor a two out of five for affordability."
"Azure Monitor is cheaper compared to other third-party monitoring tools."
"The product offers a pay-as-you-go model to users. The charges are to be paid according to the usage of the product."
"My company is okay with the current pricing of the solution."
"I am using an open-source version"
"The solution is expensive."
"I give the price an eight out of ten."
"My company uses the open-source version of Grafana, so it's free."
"Since Grafana is an open-source solution, it is free of cost."
"We are using the open-source license."
"For me, Grafana is a cheap tool because I don't have to spend much time learning the product since it is a simple solution."
"We use the open-source version of Grafana."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
What do you like most about Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment.
What needs improvement with Azure Monitor?
Azure Monitor can improve by adding some kind of storage for logs. I can get the runtime logs alone, yet if Azure Monitor can independently add one gigabyte, two gigabytes, or five gigabytes at lea...
What do you like most about Grafana?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Grafana?
I used the open-source version for my learning, which was free. In an enterprise setting, pricing is reasonable, as many customers use it.
What needs improvement with Grafana?
The interface is not well-liked by my customers. Grafana cannot be easily embedded into certain applications and offers limited customization options for graphs. I think predictive capabilities in ...
 

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