We performed a comparison between Grafana and Honeycomb.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"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."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"The solution has good features."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward since we were getting enough support from Honeycomb.io's team."
"Setting up alerts via Grafana is a bit complicated, and alerting needs to improve."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"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."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The process of log scraping gets delayed on Honeycomb.io. At times, it gives false alerts to the application team."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while Honeycomb.io is ranked 37th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Grafana is rated 8.0, while Honeycomb.io is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Honeycomb.io writes "A valuable solution for application teams to identify downtime and SLO-related issues". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray, whereas Honeycomb.io is most compared with Sentry, Chronosphere, Azure Monitor, Datadog and New Relic.
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