We performed a comparison between Grafana and Monte Carlo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."Provides good dashboard visualization."
"Grafana's built-in integration with third-party tools, databases, and MQs is an amazing feature."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"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."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"The service dashboard is very hard and needs improvement."
"The solution should include online support."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"I had issues with the solution's configuration part."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Monte Carlo is ranked 1st in Data Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Monte Carlo is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Monte Carlo writes "Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface. ". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Elastic Observability, whereas Monte Carlo is most compared with Datadog, Splunk APM, Dynatrace, Acceldata and Unravel Data.
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