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 works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"You can scale the product."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"It has good stability."
"The solution can scale well."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"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."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"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."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Grafana need to improve the logging functionality."
"The solution should include online support."
"The formatting could be better."
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 38 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, Prometheus, Sentry 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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