
We use grafana for monitoring al the business process and infrastructure. We are now only approaching but it look good (moving from cacti). The capability to review data old and new it is powerful. The look and feel it is really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some time take time to update, maybe because we are on test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Grafana can to easily visualise both regular and custom server metrics.
It's open source and works perfectly on Linux servers.
It doesn't require administration after initial setup and configuration. All you need is to add new metrics and servers to dashboard.
We use it for all kind of servers: Domain controller, Database, WEB etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Configuration is available only for administrator account thus limiting experienced users from making own changes and additions.
I met few devops who knew how to setup and use this thing. In other situations people could not get all potential from the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ability to easily create dashboards for monitoring various services.
A large variety of graph types.
Ability to create templates and variables.
Very responsive, nice and friendly UI.
Ability to easily search for other dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lack of logarithmic scale when overlapping different graphs.
No ability to use multiple sources which would overlap in the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Summary dashboard of all devices with features customized as per requirements of the team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Graphics are at time slow loading and the diagrams which represent data doesn't always load immediately Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Grafana is user friendly, we are using it for analysis & visualization of retail data over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Alerting and notification can be improvised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.