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.
"You can scale the product."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"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 dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Azure Monitor is a very easy-to-use product in the cloud environment."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"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."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The solution has good features."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The best feature was the creation of graphs and trends."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
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 39 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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