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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 29th, 2026 # Reviews of Grafana Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 3.9 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Krisztián T Data Centre Engineering OperationsFacilities Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Its intuitive dashboards make it easy to visualise temperature trends, humidity, fire alarm statuses, and electrical anomalies across multiple clusters.“ July 31, 2025 Krisztián T Data Centre Engineering OperationsFacilities Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It is very slow to load in any browser.“ July 31, 2025 HV Hrithik V Software Engineer - Trading SystemsFinancial Services, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Grafana has become one of the tools I use most when troubleshooting production issues.“ June 26, 2026 AH Amit H Technical Support Engineer - devopsInformation Technology and Services, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “finds little trouble while configuration)“ December 30, 2024 IP Ilya P SREComputer & Network Security, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The dashboards are extremely informative and very graphically nice“ May 2, 2026 MV Mayur V Software EngineerInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Some feature is not working on free open source version- Limited data type visualizations such as count, numbers and time duration-“ February 27, 2023 Krisztián T Data Centre Engineering OperationsFacilities Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Alert configurations are powerful and highly customizable.“ July 31, 2025 CM Christhian M Data ScientistFinancial Services, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Grafana doesn't implement tracking for each process.“ October 19, 2024 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 72 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Hrithik V. Software Engineer - Trading Systems Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Excellent dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting production systems" June 30, 2026 5.0 Grafana has been a reliable part of my day-to-day workflow. I use it regularly to monitor services, investigate production issues, review logs, and verify system health after deployments or configuration changes. The dashboards are also responsive and make it much easier to spot problems than reading raw logs alone. Pros Grafana has become one of the tools I use most when troubleshooting production issues. The dashboards make it easy to monitor services, check latency, inspect logs, and quickly understand what's happening across different components. I like that everything is in one place, so I can move from a high-level dashboard to specific logs without switching between multiple tools. Cons There are a lot of dashboards and options, so it can take some time to learn where everything lives. Some dashboards are also very specific to a team's setup, so new users may need a little guidance before they become productive. Review Source Verified Reviewer SRE Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Great Monitor for your production" May 7, 2026 5.0 Pros The dashboards are extremely informative and very graphically nice Alerts are easy to create and configure with minimum false positives Ability to generate reports is extremely helpful Cons In order to create elaborate dashboards you need to dive into the documentation and research it, its not very intuitive Review Source R Reviewer Energy manager, teacher Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Review from college - Howest" August 29, 2023 4.0 Grafana was the first visualization tool we used with our students. We are still using it because it makes it possible to explain the whole visualisation process of data. Starting from getting data in a database to make realtime visualizations and error reporting possible. Due to real time visualization of the data, we can make savings in the company. Next to that we can make calculations of optimization possibilities of the campus (heat and electricity) which are very usefull to save more energy. Pros The ease of making visualizations with different data sources (ex. influx DB). Easy to make visualizations of energy datasets. We are visualizing all the energy data of the campus on real time base with Grafana. This is very useful to have an overview of the realtime consumption of the different sites. With Grafana we also implement upper and lower limits. When consumption is to high, we try to lower down the consumption of the different processes, depending of the price. Cons It is hard to make reports with Grafana. For this reason, for making reports we are using other tools and visualisation software. Next to that sometimes updates are making that some visualisations are not possible anymore. But over the time I use Grafana, it keeps getting better. Review Source R Reviewer ProdOps Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "I like it and my company use it heavily " May 13, 2025 5.0 I like my experience with Grafana labs, they could improve the learning process and add courses so we can learn the in and out of it Pros I like Prometheus and especially that it is open source. Also, I like the improvements they have recently made Cons They could improve the documentation of new synthetic monitoring to be informative and help us to implement them in a better way Review Source R Reviewer FreeLancer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "My Experience using Grafana" August 16, 2022 3.0 Visualising got easy to manage cloud monitoring services as able to integrate different clouds on the same dashboard. It can be easily configured with most Databases as Relational, Time-Series. The alert system is the most effective one which we can make use of in Grafana to set the Alerts and all. Pros The most I like to have this software used as its free to use and also its an open source software. Grafana consists of various kinds of authenticating methods and security level setup. It has a an alert and monitoring tool which keeps on updating after a threshold value for which is set. It has chances of new developments and API interaction, Creation of new measurements and demonstrating concerning different devices Cons Everything has a limit, as its Limits charts to Time Series, It is not self manageable. The dashboard also has a very limited organisation. The UI isnt that much effective, as its having a very limited designs. It has set its boundaries to time series only, as its not comparitively well organised with respect of other tools in the market such as Power BI etc... Review Source Francisco T. Tecnico Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Why we have to use Grafana?" February 6, 2024 5.0 It's "The daily tool" to review, server status, service status, backups status. It's the 'must have' tool for viewing the status of servers. Pros It's very easy to mix different data and create different graphs. Now it's possible to make graphs and mix with images, SVG images. All of this in a very intuitive way. Cons It's not possible to make granular permissions in the versions we use. Review Source Praveen Kumar M. DevOps Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Grafana: Dashboard for everyone" August 3, 2021 5.0 I am very happy with Grafana and it's dashboard and plotting variations of metricises. Pros In Grafana it's very easy to create the dashboard and plot the data at the same location from multiple resources. It supports many data sources like Prometheus and Influx database. Cons If we need to create custom dashboards, we need to learn JASON language. Review Source Verified Reviewer QA and Observability Engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "insight and understanding into your application" March 20, 2024 5.0 With Grafana you get insight and understanding into your application, easy setup dashboards. Pros \- dashboarding - insight into metrics, traces and logging - synthetics checks - K6 Load testing -Alerting Cons \- licence is also user based - Learning curve is for developers Review Source VR Verified Reviewer COO Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Grafana for proof of concept" February 26, 2023 3.0 Pros Low-code software that is very easy to create meaningful visualizations and dashboards that can be deployed in a real-life scenario within a few hours. Cons The dark mode colours can be a bit dull and the UI can be improved a lot more. Review Source Verified Reviewer Data Centre Engineering Operations Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Outstanding Real-Time Monitoring Tool for Facility Alarms" July 31, 2025 4.0 Pros Grafana is a great tool for real-time monitoring of critical building alarms. Its intuitive dashboards make it easy to visualise temperature trends, humidity, fire alarm statuses, and electrical anomalies across multiple clusters. Alert configurations are powerful and highly customizable. Cons Initial setup requires technical knowledge, especially if you’re connecting it to multiple data streams or legacy BMS systems. Role-based access control could be more granular. It is very slow to load in any browser. Review Source AH Amit H. Technical Support Engineer - devops Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Best Product ever" January 7, 2025 5.0 Awesome! since the application is very user-friendly anyone can learn and get hands on it quickly. Pros 1\. Simple user interface. 2. Functionality. 3. Correctness. 4. Efficiency. Cons 1\. Testability. (finds little trouble while configuration) 2. Security. (multi-factor authentication required.) Review Source Verified Reviewer Software engineer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Best Tool for IT metrics" May 22, 2024 5.0 My experience has been invaluable, and it is nice to be able to tune it for live alerts and catch issues before users even know about it. Pros The vast amount of components you can configure via code or in Grafana itself makes itself a swiss army knife for reporting and metrics, from API and UI level to server level. Cons It is complex to learn compared to other reporting tools. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Developer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Grafana en mi trabajo" June 19, 2024 5.0 Muy buena, recomiendo 100% para el uso diario y el creado de dashboard para monitoreo Pros la capacidad de armar dashboards compuestos Cons Puede ser que la performance a la hora de usarlo Review Source Sabarish S. Lead Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "A great visualization Monitoring Tool" February 28, 2023 4.0 Pros Key features are its plugins, UI and monitoring aspects.Alerts and visualization makes this product unique and outstanding.Easily integrated with many software and can manage multiple servers. Cons The process can be made more user friendly and KEDB can be improved. Review Source Verified Reviewer Middleware Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Grafana an easily accessible dashboard tool" April 14, 2023 5.0 I have used Grafana for the last few years to generate operational and control dashboards. Pros It has many plugins and datasources that help to obtain information from different sources and to present it in many alternatives with the plugins. Cons There are many plugins or datasources that must be paid for in the enterprise version. Review Source R Reviewer Administrator Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Works as expected" July 19, 2023 4.0 Pros The Amount of available Dashboards made from the Community or the Developer makes using grafana very easy. But also if you need to build your own Dashboard you can do it quite easy. Highlight is the Fusion of Data from several sources. Cons Innitial Installation can be a bit tricky, if not used in premade Docker Enviroment. Review Source R Reviewer Lead Incident Manager Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Perfect software to visualice the behaviour of your infrastructure!!!" May 24, 2022 5.0 its a great support for my daily work. Easy to use. It's a keeper! Pros Its easy to use. There is multiple types of graphs to show whatever you need. It has an easy interface with Data Base, log browsers, etc. Cons I was not able to configure a null value when there is no metric for a specific point of time, just between another ones. So the graph shows a continuos line, but there should be an empty space in the middle Review Source Verified Reviewer Merchandising Executive Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "The Great Visualization Tool" January 17, 2023 4.0 Pros I liked that Grafana is an open source platform that provides a rich set of features for visualizing and analyzing time-series data. It is highly customizable, allowing users to create custom dashboards and alerts. Cons Although I don't have any complaints about Grafana, I suggest offering more plugin integration options for the free plans Review Source R Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Good tool for monitoring purpose" February 28, 2023 4.0 Overall, The Grafana is very simple and easily configuration tool. We can monitoring & visualize data with this tool also integrate with third party tool. Pros \- Easy to setup & configuration- User management is very good- Customize our own dashboard & graph- Send Alert notification when threshold value is up.- Easily understand & readable logs Cons \- Some feature is not working on free open source version- Limited data type visualizations such as count, numbers and time duration- Limited option & designs for create graph & dashboard Review Source R Reviewer System Support Engineer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Grafana-Review" September 27, 2022 5.0 Grafana gave us more capabilities and more visualization into our security posture. Pros The visualization was very good for me personally while using the software, especially the visualization suggestions when you don’t know how to represent your data either in Tables, graphs, or Time series. The product is easy to use and straightforward. We integrated the software with Azure Sentinel(log analytics) to give us more visibility into our security events and data. Cons I would like an improvement in the transformation options, particularly under the regex tab, currently, it doesn’t give a full sophisticated option for renaming a value. I would want more features added under the transformation tab. The query tab should be improved to make it easy to use. Review Source Dono G. Director of QA Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Great open source tool that gives good customisability" March 24, 2022 4.0 Overall it is good. It has a steepish learning curve but gives out good value. Pros Good graphical representations, ability to add in alerting on thresholds and autocompleting to make setup of graphs easier. Cons It is not so easy to set this tool up. You do need someone with a lot of deep knowledge to really get this working. Review Source R Reviewer Lead Support Analysis Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Grafana review" January 30, 2024 5.0 Pros Grafana makes it easy building dashboards for pods in a microservice architecture. Cons The learning curve and configuration complexity might be challenging for beginners. Review Source R Reviewer graphic designer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "very useful tool to create dashboards" February 15, 2022 5.0 But in general it seems to me a very very useful tool to create and share data and dashboard with colleagues and even clients. Pros What I like the most is the ease of creating dashboards that are very useful for senior managers Cons Perhaps what I like least is the export of the data and the little ease of modifying the own database Review Source R Reviewer Digitalisation Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Bilan 1 an d'utilisation" January 8, 2023 4.0 Augmentation en compétences dans le dashboarding. Pros Qualité de l'affichage, choix d'indicateurs très variés Cons Prise en main difficile pour les équipes de terrain Review Source Adam G. Mgr Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Great Insights" June 29, 2021 4.0 Pros Grafana was able to show insights that we weren't able to see before. Cons I would like to see Real-Time ticket refreshes, I manually need to refresh Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.