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.
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"Technical support is helpful."
"You can scale the product."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"It has good stability."
"It is a stable solution."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"The default interface should be improved."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It can take a considerable amount of time to learn the graphs if a long duration is selected."
"The formatting could be better."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Grafana is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 33 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Grafana is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "Helps us test the performance and efficiency of cloud applications; good log analysis". 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, Splunk Enterprise Security, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Sentry, whereas Grafana is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Sentry, Honeycomb.io and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Azure Monitor vs. Grafana report.
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