We performed a comparison between Grafana and InfoVista 5View NetFlow 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."There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The solution has good features."
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"The most important feature of Grafana is its alarm formatting capability."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The initial setup is straightforward with just a few clicks on the solution's cloud."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"The look and feel of the charting and graph capabilities in Grafana could improve. If they provided a storyboard type of feature as they have in other solutions, such as PowerBI. The multi-tenanted and stitch metrics features could improve."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
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Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 63rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Grafana is rated 8.0, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of InfoVista 5View NetFlow writes "Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Dynatrace, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Catchpoint.
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