# Page 2 | Grafana Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Grafana the right Reporting solution for you? Explore 71 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/196036/Grafana-Enterprise/reviews --- Grafana 4.6 (71) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/196036/Grafana-Enterprise/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Grafana ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 71 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Software engineer Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Tool for IT metrics" May 21, 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 SA Sara A. Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Create useful dashboards with Grafana" May 2, 2024 5.0 Grafana helps me a lot to keep en eye on what's happening on my systems. Above all I use the Stat Visualization with 3 levels of threshold Pros I use Grafana to have better visualization on what's happening about metrics collected by Zabbix server and Graylog Server (just add the data source). With Grafana I can create several dashboards that contain different kind of panels: bars, gauges, numbers -called stat- (changing colour if a threshold is reached), graphs, logs... Just add the metric you want to be displayed. With these informations displayed on a large monitor anyone can be alerted when a value is out of range in an easy and effective way. There are additional plugins available to better customize your panel. Grafana runs on linux, the installation is easy and quick. You can easily find documentation on internet. Cons some plugins are in beta or don't work as expected Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Engineer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Highly customizable open source monitoring tool" July 29, 2021 5.0 As previously mentioned, we now use free Grafana instead of 6-figure $$$ monitoring software we used to pay for, and we can monitor more systems, customize better, and get more detail than we could get with that expensive software. We monitor current and historical performance and capacity on our Dell storage arrays (ECS, XtremIO, VxFlex), Unix/Linux operating systems, and VMWare vSphere. Surprisingly, it is easier to use and gives better dashboards insight than commercial products we have paid many thousands of dollars for. But, as stated before, to get the most out of this, you really need to put this in the hands of someone who understands the internals of what you are monitoring (OS and/or storage arrays), understands databases, and preferably someone who is good with coding. Pros Grafana is extremely highly customizable. You can create your own dashboards exactly how you want them. There are many plugins available online -- for us, there is a plugin for just about any storage array or operating system we want to monitor. We now use free Grafana instead of 6-figure $$$ monitoring software we used to pay for, and we can monitor more systems, customize better, and get more detail than we could get with that expensive software. Updates for Grafana are easy to find and install. Cons Since it is free and open source, there is no support, but you might be able to find some 3rd-party support you could pay for. You really need to put this in the hands of someone who understands the internals of what you are monitoring (OS and/or storage arrays), understands databases, and preferably someone who is good with coding to get the most out of the product. Review Source Belmin K. ICT Specialist & Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best software for monitoring dashboards" June 15, 2023 5.0 Beautiful interface, easy deploy and perfect integration with my Zabbix server.I know if there are any problems in my infrastructure just by looking at the dashboard. Pros Easy deployment, integrates nicely with Zabbix and has many graphs for data visualization.I like the fact that I can customize a lot the dashboard. Cons Some configurations might be difficult if you are new on Linux. Review Source Alberto R. CTO Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Ideal para monitorizar el estado de la infraestructura" February 3, 2024 5.0 Usamos la versión en la nube de Grafana y con la capa gratuita podemos monitorizar el estado de nuestra página web principal. Pros La facilidad para recoger datos de la infraestructura con poca configuración. Ofrece mucha flexibilidad para configurar los paneles y visualizar los datos como te guste. Cons A veces no he encontrado algunas integraciones para monitorizar algunos productos. Reason for choosing Grafana Porque ofrece un servicio gestionado en la nube, además de que ofrece una capa gratuita. Es más rápido de configurar y mas potente a la hora de mostrar los datos. Switched from [Nagios XI](https://www.capterra.com/p/152793/Nagios-XI/) Porque Nagios no ofrece un servicio en la nube. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer QA and Observability Engineer Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "insight and understanding into your application" February 15, 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 Alternatives considered [Datadog](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/)[Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/)[Splunk Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/94317/Splunk/)[New Relic](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/) Reason for choosing Grafana the price, licencing and the opensource variant Review Source CHMC Carlos Hugo Martin C. Consultor Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Experience with Grafana" March 31, 2022 4.0 Se ha utilizado Grafana para generar dashboards de monitoreo, pudiendo centralizar las métricas de distintas soluciones de monitoreo como Prometheus, Zabbix, etc. Pros The ability to generate visually attractive, efficient dashboards that help the operations area understand what is happening on the monitored platforms. Cons That different data sources cannot be used in the same graph at the same time, causing a visual comparison of the data to be difficult. Alternatives considered [Jaspersoft](https://www.capterra.com/p/170203/Jaspersoft/) Reason for choosing Grafana For the price and flexibility of Grafana when generating dashboards. Switched from [Jaspersoft](https://www.capterra.com/p/170203/Jaspersoft/) Grafana is more flexible when it comes to generating dashboards, plus it has more integration options. Review Source Jason Taylor F. Governance, Risk & Compliance Administrator E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Metrics + Visualization + Alerts = Bliss" April 5, 2020 4.0 We were looking to have multiple monitoring targets with good visualization to pipe out for both classical notifications and visualization. I can't say enough about the awesome visualizations; makes it so easy to demonstrate across teams when things are good (heart symbol), or when things are bad (giant spikes pushing over your happiness thresholds; dashed tolerance lines). Pros I love the customizable dashboards with the ability to zero in on specific time frames. The alert settings can be adjusted, the data sources can be customized, and the notifications can be customized. It's a very flexible tool and is open source. Cons The downside of having something so customizable is that you need to invest some time to get it to produce what you're looking for. It's worth the investment, but know ahead of time that it is a significant investment. Aside from setting up the data in and alerts out (and configuring the limits, etc.), you also need a storage solution if you want to keep a historical record; but this isn't super necessary since your data sources likely have storage solutions. Still, it would be nice to have a record of Grafana since that is where you've invested the time and congregated the data. Review Source Prashant D. Linux Admin Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool for visualation" March 19, 2023 5.0 Pros It can be integrate with many other tools easily like as Zabbix, elk, Prometheus, precona Cons good application deployed on production enviourment Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Grafana Review" December 13, 2022 5.0 Pros Grafana is a great tool offering connections to several types of data source (sql, postgresql, ...), allowing the user to query and plot the data. In addition, it provides the users with a dashboard where they can find all the visualizations they created such as graphs, tables and many more. Cons Despites its interesting features, Grafana is a bit complex to deploy and to utilize; it necessitates a bunch of expertise and information in a variety of fields. A complex dashboard, for example, requires competence in JSON. Review Source SS Sabarish S. Lead Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great visualization Monitoring Tool" February 27, 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. Alternatives considered [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.capterra.com/p/204333/Amazon-CloudWatch/)[Nagios Log Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/152749/Nagios-Log-Server/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Middleware Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Grafana an easily accessible dashboard tool" April 8, 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 VR Verified Reviewer Devops Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Data visualization very good" April 14, 2023 5.0 Pros I like the data visualization part because it is very to understand all graphs. Cons I like all the features but Grafana's latest version, they have rolled out the graph (old) feature. Review Source RS Robin S. Administrator Building Materials Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Works as expected" July 18, 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 Vanshul C. Head of Engineerinh Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Grafana - Dashboards, Alerts and much more !!!!" May 6, 2022 5.0 Pros \- API based dashboards for real time visibility - Easy setup of alerts with various channels - Email, PagerDuty,Slack Cons \- None as of now. Would be great though if they can provide more insights onto logs too like ELK Review Source GU Gourav U. Software engineer Gambling & Casinos Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Visualization at top notch" April 24, 2023 5.0 Pros The best part i love most is it support multiple datasource to provide visualization .It supports lot of data matrix and result is accurate. Cons There is nothing bad about it as it has all the features we need. Review Source Mehmet K. FRONT END DEVELOPER Government Relations Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The power of grafana in public institution use" July 28, 2022 5.0 n the company I work for, we manage and monitor CRM and IOT devices with grafana. Having a free version is a huge financial advantage. Pros It is very simple and easy to integrate into existing systems. It has integration with almost all database systems. Cons First of all it is free to use. The possibilities offered by the free version are quite sufficient. It is a great advantage that it can be set up with one click. Review Source Oluwa Locheyi H. Argent commercial Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Un avis sur Grafana" October 23, 2023 4.0 Pros Grafana est un logiciel qui me permet de visualiser des données. Il me permet de créer également des tableau de bord de graphique très bien conçu et organisé. Cons Grafana ne présente pas d'inconvénients à ce que je ne sache pour le moment. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Engineer Lead Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Visualization for your data" January 27, 2022 4.0 Overall we have been able to accomplish something we never have before and track trends and pin point possible issues. Pros The dashboards that are built with Grafana are very appealing. Everyone from basic users, high level management and Engineers find the data visualization extremely beneficial. Cons Getting the dashboards built out exactly how you want can sometimes be difficult. Alternatives considered [Datadog](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/) Reason for choosing Grafana The cost of Grafana (free) was easier to swallow than the hefty quote from Datadog Review Source TP Tony P. Director IT Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Metric Dashboard" March 1, 2022 4.0 Very intuitive and well designed. Good product for network devices monitoring and gauge. Pros Nice graphical dashboard panel that show network device utilization, data and stats including time stamps which can be download. Cons It doesn't have the ability to set multiple dates/ times graphs in a single panel for comparison purposes. Product might need to consider optional PDF along with CSV when download files. Reason for choosing Grafana Graphs which show precise metric performance for network utilization and easy viewing and understanding for the upper management . A good presentation graphical report using JSON. Review Source Janne M. Technical Product Manager Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Clear and concise visualization tool" July 3, 2021 5.0 Grafana doesn't feel and look like extremely modern system, it's emphasizing clarity and being non-nonsensical. It doesn't provide beautiful graphs just for the sake of beauty, instead it opts to make graphs that engineers / developers want to be looking at for maximum efficiency. Pros Grafana integrates exceptionally well to Zabbix for producing visualization for time series statistics inside a Zabbix database. The integration is easy to setup and works reliably. Cons If you want to use other data sources than Zabbix, integration is more challenging and works around plugins, which have varying quality. Review Source DD Diego D. Lead Incident Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Perfect software to visualice the behaviour of your infrastructure!!!" January 13, 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 Max S. Customer Success TL Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Comprehensive tookit to make company's KPIs visible and actionable" November 12, 2019 5.0 It allows to connect nearly any datasource and build analytics on top of that. It helped us to highlight business-critical KPIs in various aspects (from technical to business side), recognise and eliminate many otherwise hidden issues. Pros \- Flexibility of datasource selection - Wide variety of graphical tools to display data - Export in CSV - API integration Cons Not really a "con", though a thing to be aware of: one needs to know SQL to be an efficient administrator / user of Grafana. Review Source OD Osman D. Sr. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Grafana\_02-07-2022" July 2, 2022 5.0 I forked it and i use it on timeseries data reporting. Pros It is unrivaled to monitoring and reporting time series data. Cons it has no multi language support and it has need to improvement visual query builder. Alternatives considered [Elastic Security](https://www.capterra.com/p/233875/Kibana/) Review Source JH Javvad H. Data Analyst Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Data visualization with Grafana " March 7, 2020 4.0 Overall Grafana is very user friendly and at the same time stands well when compared to other major visualization tools. Pros Grafana gives the ability to produce beautiful data visualizations that offer realtime insights into the data set s thanks to its rich collection of graphs and visuals. It supports connectivity with numerous data sources like excel, csv, SQL etc. The created dashboards are opened in web browser that gives great opportunity to share and present on network operation centre main screen. The dashboards developed are scalable and flexible. Cons In the start it takes little bit of effort to come up with a visualization that you need to develop there on its fairly easy and scalable. Switched from [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.capterra.com/p/176586/Power-BI/) Power BI gives limited functionality to share the dashboards, and owing to IT policies restrictions to not use the cloud for sensitive data, Grafana offered good options to share locally on company LAN network. Review Source Similar Products Featured