--- title: Grafana Labs Reviews meta\_title: 'Grafana Labs Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 166 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Grafana Labs works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 166 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-10' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![IBM Instana](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Instana") IBM Instana 4.4/5(480) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/competitors/alternatives) # Grafana Labs Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Grafana Labs but has limited features. Are you part of the Grafana Labs team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 3,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 1 million active instances of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with the LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise offerings, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security. Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, and J.P. Morgan. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit https://grafana.com. * * * Seller [Grafana Labs](https://www.g2.com/sellers/grafana-labs) Discussions [Grafana Labs Community](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Lisa Wilberding Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fgrafana-labs%2Freviews%3Fdiscussion%3Dapart-from-data-visualization-can-we-also-used-grafana-for-showing-text-as-well) ## User Insights Average based on 166 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Grafana Labs Integrations (22) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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GY Gulustan Y. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/17/2023 "I was using grafana regularly for daily data tracking." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? charts are very presize and understandable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? there were occasional technical glitches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? i was using it for checking daily reports and data analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Suraj B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suraj B.") SB Suraj B. Senior Software Development Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/17/2022 "Grafana for Monitoring your Services" 4/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? I like the interactive visualization features such as charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. Also, the KPI param can be created for our custom usage and monitor the activities for prod application alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Limited data type visualizations such as count, numbers and time duration. This can be improved and allow the users to add more customized dashboards for their needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Grafana to monitor my Spring application health by exposing metrics to Prometheus and then to the Grafana, Also created Kafka metrics and custom graphs for my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite PJ Pranay J. Senior DevOps Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/6/2022 "Grafana: The Great Visualization Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Grafana is a great tool for visualization of matrics coming from different sources like Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, etc. We can visualize metrics in multiple formats like graphs, logs, charts, and many others. It's an open-source tool that can be run self-host on the cloud or can be used on Grafana instances. Grafana also provides a free tier plan which is more than enough for most of the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? I don't think there is something to dislike about Grafana but I would recommend allowing using some major plugin integration with the free or self-hosted plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Logs are the basic requirement of every team working on a web application. Grafana is helping us to put the logs from multiple sources on a single dashboard. It also allows us to put monitoring and alerting mechanisms on the basis of those logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kapil V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kapil V.") KV Kapil V. Software Engineer - 2 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/3/2022 "Grafana for Kafka Monitoring" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? We have used Grafana for creating the Monitoring Dashboard for the Kafka Cluster and creating alerts on different metrics. The best thing about this it provides a very rich library of visuals and we can share the dashboard across teams without any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? There are some configurations which cannot be applied from the web console (UI) Grafana and in some charts, we feel the need for customization but it's not there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Grafana for Monitoring and Alerts on the Kafka cluster & Shared the same dashboard with Kafka consumers as well so they can see the performance of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sergey M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sergey M.") SM Sergey M. QA Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/22/2022 "Grafana. Indispensable Grafana" 4/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? The first and primary function of Grafana for me is the delivery of real-time metrics. Even a fast glance into its dashboards lets me estimate our product performance and conduct quick investigations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Sometimes advantages become drawbacks. In order to edit some table or graph, I used to ask my colleagues if they could help create the SQL query. Editor mode isn't much more convenient than query mode. The improvement of this feature could make Grafana more useful for users who are not so familiar with SQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Grafana Labs: You should know precisely what do you want from Grafana. And Grafana will surely reward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Grafana helps me to monitor our product performance. We can easily find any Prod operations incidents. Early and in-time Grafana alerts let us minimize our losses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tanicia J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tanicia J.") TJ Tanicia J. Customer service rep Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/12/2022 "Super easy to maneuver,easy to run reports." 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Locating redemptions and payments are very easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Takes a little while to load if searching for over 30 days Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Payments issuues. Redemption queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic RO Ricardo O. RPA Developer Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/6/2022 "Fast connectivity with excellent data monitoring charts" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Open source, easy to plug with many data sources to see metrics and results with a good appeareance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Some settings in my opinion are hidden, because of this you could forgot to use a resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Mainly in case to report erros and act so fast to solve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") AA Verified User in Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/31/2022 "Best Open Source Monitoring Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Grafana has the best interface where the users can easily check the dashboards, data sources all at one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? The main thing would be the issue with alert triggers and limited functionality on dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Grafana is helping my team to identify jenkins instances that is having issues and to analyse the build issue with the dashboard. Also it helps us to understand the node observability for the k8s clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chirag J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chirag J.") CJ Chirag J. Investigations Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/28/2022 "Grafana Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Presentation of data in form of visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Limited option to create graphs, less custom option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Application error monitoring alert Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Zobia K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zobia K.") ZK Zobia K. Jr. Devops Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/17/2021 "Monitoring Visualization" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? There are lots of things that should be mentioned it was the best visualization tool Its is easy to set up and handle its supports lots of data sources to perform better visualization also publish dashboard Alert notification are also provide which send you notification in many different media like slack email telegram Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? The problem i personally faced is that its doesnot create alerts on builtin dashboards or use the variable we need to create seperate panel to create alert in dashboard we use from grafana labs. For grafana lab which is bit expensive and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Grafana Labs: If you are wishing for exceptional monitoring tool and not to shift many times according to your needs, then you must go with grafana to monitor your machine endpoints or access your logs publish your dashboard easily create users and their roles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? As a part of my job as a DevOps engineer monitoring is an essential part that is now easy and interesting using attractive dashboards and panels and supporting lots of data sources, including AWS Kubernetes Jenkins Prometheus, etc we can create user and roles and give them permissions too. its also provides alerts notification with a seperate page in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Grafana Labs? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Grafana Labs ](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/discussions/new) ![Damini S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Damini S.") DS Damini Sisodiya • Last activity about 4 years ago . 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/grafana) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 11 months ### Average Discount 7% ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/grafana-labs/pricing) ## How much does Grafana Labs cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 6 purchases. 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