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's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"The most valuable feature is that it's stable. It hasn't crossed any thresholds."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"The solution very easily integrates with Azure services and in one click you can monitor your resource."
"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."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The solution can scale well."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"It provides a graphical representation and it's clear to see what's happening."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana is the ease to build dashboards from observability construction. Additionally, the page services and integration are good."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"The default interface should be improved."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"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."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"I find issues with Grafana. For example, I am unable to open some services there. Then, we have to open ten different tabs to get it fixed. And it's annoying when there's something going on; we want to check Grafana, and it throws four different errors."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
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.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.