Grafana Enterprise Stack vs IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) comparison

Grafana Labs and IBM are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Grafana Labs is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5, while IBM is ranked #43 with an average rating of 7.5. Grafana Labs holds a 1.2% mindshare in IM, compared to IBM’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Grafana Labs users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

IBM SevOne Network Performance Management and Grafana Enterprise Stack compete in the network management space. Data shows Grafana Enterprise Stack has an advantage with its customization and flexibility, while IBM SevOne NPM leads in support and integration.

Features: IBM SevOne NPM provides comprehensive reporting, integration with multiple network vendors, and robust monitoring and performance analytics. Grafana Enterprise Stack offers advanced visualization, open-source customizability, and the ability to create detailed dashboards and complex queries for in-depth data analysis.

Room for Improvement: IBM SevOne NPM could enhance user interface interactions, expand third-party application support, and reduce setup complexity. Grafana Enterprise Stack might benefit from simplifying its learning curve, offering more guided tutorials, and improving its default dashboard templates for beginners.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM SevOne NPM is recognized for its supportive deployment structure and quick setup, beneficial for organizations seeking fast integration. Grafana Enterprise Stack's deployment involves a learning curve due to its extensive customization options but ultimately allows for a tailored data visualization environment.

Pricing and ROI: Grafana Enterprise Stack features competitive pricing with significant long-term value through extensive customization, justifying its cost. IBM SevOne NPM generally has higher setup costs but offers substantial ROI with enhanced network performance insights, making it a valuable investment for businesses.

To learn more, read our detailed Grafana Enterprise Stack vs. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM SevOne Network Performa...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

43rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (45th), Server Monitoring (19th), Log Management (42nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (30th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Grafana Enterprise Stack	1.2%
IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM)	0.9%
Other	97.9%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Gregory Diana

Managing Director at Exponential Energy (Pty) Ltd

Offers very good charting capabilities and capable of automatically generating dashboards, even for a large number of data points

In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party. It's like Node-RED. Node-RED is free, and you can choose an application, but that application depends on the person who's supporting it. If they decide not to support it, then you're stuck. However, I believe that it can't be improved or changed because people have to make money and make a living from it. Nothing will ever be changed. It depends on the software. Same as Windward. Windward just decided it could not support a large number of customers, so it focused on high-income, low-volume clients. Whereas Node-RED has millions of followers and fantastic support, the same as Grafana. Grafana is partly free, but it's your problem. That's how all these companies work. If you're big and you pay a lot of money, they'll pay attention to you.

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Grzegorz Nowak

Solution Architect at Wingu

Improves infrastructure planning by helping us analyze network traffic

We use SevOne to collect and report on network flows SevOne improves infrastructure planning by helping us analyze network traffic. We can look at bandwidth for specific endpoints on the customer's network and analyze traffic to identify issues. For example, maybe some connectors are unavailable.…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Grafana has enough features around dashboard management. It's got enough plugins to create your dashboards."

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

"It is truly reliable."

"Compared to other packages, Grafana Enterprise Stack is user-friendly and easy to configure quickly."

"The ability to graph actual, live, or on-the-fly activity is valuable; it is an added value to work with Grafana Enterprise Stack and to display results or logs, which are huge in nature, in graphical characters."

"The most valuable feature of Grafana Enterprise Stack is the dashboards."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

"The dashboards are pretty good."

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"In 90% of the cases, new devices are plug-and-play, so when a new version comes out then SevOne has support for it out of the box."

"With this tool it is interesting to show the info to the client and explain where the traffic is."

"The most valuable feature is the NMS because that's the core of the system. Without the NMS, the other tools aren't that usable."

"Flexible architecture: You can extend the system and its capacity by attaching another cluster pair."

"We've had great feedback from our customers about SevOne support. They're willing to set up a remote session upon request. You have to go through three tiers of support with most vendors, and they ask a lot of screening questions before they will do a remote session. You need to spend a lot of time before an engineer will host a remote session to look at your problematic system."

"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is the scale-up and scale-down. The scale-up is an operation where the CPU boosts-up and then the memory will boost-up. That works awesomely."

"It's a great solution for highlighting and discovering useful information regarding our network's elements."

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Cons

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

"The solution should include integration with Power BI."

"They could use more small tutorials to explain a bit about how Grafana works."

"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

"Integrating AI capabilities for automated self-healing and reduced manual interventions would be valuable."

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"The customizations are very hard. The person doing it has to be very good at analytics and has to be very good in all languages"

"You need to plan integrations. That has been the biggest bug with SevOne so far. For the things that SevOne pulls directly, those are easy to understand, modify, and put into the database. For things that need to use the Universal Collector or xStats, you need to plan that stuff well in advance."

"We need to be thinking about streaming telemetry protocols. They already have the port for enhanced visualization, which they already have through Data Insight."

"There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities."

"In terms of having a complete view of our network performance, I would rate it a nine out of 10. The reason for not giving it a 10 is that there is no packet capture associated with SevOne, but we do have other tools in place to do that."

"User-friendly, multi-tenancy."

"There is no service mode setup in this monitoring tool if you want to snooze alerts for any specific amount of time, to account for any activity change or major incident."

"One area that requires a little bit of improvement is the topology of visualization and being able to map out connections, end-to-end. It's able to do that, but it's not as impressive as we would like it to be. We would like to understand the different interface types and the connection points better, through the visualization. Heatmaps also need further development."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"Have a bank of licenses, because it is about the number of objects (RAM, ports, CPU, etc.)."

"For the value that you get from SevOne, it's worth the price. There are a lot of cheaper alternatives on the market, and even free options. But they require more staff, more resources, and engineers with more advanced knowledge of monitoring. That's what makes SevOne worth the price."

"Prices per license are not huge, but they exist."

"It is inexpensive compared to other monitoring tools."

"The tool is not expensive. We were able to negotiate with SevOne on pricing."

"Many tools price things based on the number of KPIs that you're collecting around a device. In many cases, there could be hundreds of metrics that you need to collect. SevOne provides device-level pricing. That gives us the flexibility to turn on, and expand on, the metrics that we're collecting around those devices, without taking a financial hit."

"There are different options available for licensing, with the per-device option being more expensive but more flexible."

"A blocking point is the high upfront cost because it is challenging to get it accepted and the purchase approved."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Legal Firm

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	45

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance,...

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What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The layout is good, but I think it needs some enhancement based on my experience. I might not have gotten deeper to understand more details, but I believe it needs more improvement. Scalability and...

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have been working for several months with Icinga, but after that, I moved forward to Zabbix, and now I might switch to Grafana Enterprise Stack. I am trying many alternatives to provide monitorin...

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What needs improvement with SevOne Network Data Platform?

There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities. It would be beneficial to have out-of-the-box integration with third-party vendors and improv...

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What is your primary use case for SevOne Network Data Platform?

The primary use case of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) ( /products/ibm-sevone-network-performance-management-npm-reviews ) is network monitoring. It helps to maintain the infrastru...

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What advice do you have for others considering SevOne Network Data Platform?

To compete with custom-built tools, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) should accommodate the desired features and be timely in the delivery of feature updates. I would rate the overal...

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Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

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The IBM® SevOne Network Performance Management (IBM SevOne NPM) solution helps you spot, address, and prevent network performance issues early with machine learning-powered analytics from a single source. Boost network performance and improve your user application experience by proactively monitoring your multivendor end-to-end network across enterprise, communication, and managed service provider networks.

Transform raw network performance data into intelligent and actionable insights. The IBM SevOne NPM solution goes beyond detection, combining industry-leading expertise and advanced technology to help your IT team plan and optimize your network and act on what matters: improving network performance to provide an exceptional customer experience.

For further information, please visit www.ibm.com/cloud/sevo...

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