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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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MK Mehmet K. Front-End Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/31/2022 "Open source monitoring tool with extensive customization" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Grafana's extensive library of graphs and images allows users to create stunning data visualizations that provide instantaneous insights into the data set. It allows connection with many different data sources, including SQL, Excel, and CSV ( SQLite, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc.). The prepared dashboards may be shared and shown on the main screen of the network operation center when they are viewed in a web browser. The dashboards created may be customized and are adaptable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Coming up with the visuals you need to construct first requires some work, but after that it becomes quite simple and scalable. The UX can be enhanced, and the editor could be a little bit more visually appealing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? We were able to identify and resolve several previously undiscovered problems, as well as highlight business-critical KPIs in a variety of areas (from the technical to the business side). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Hemant K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hemant K.") HK Hemant K. site reliability engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/14/2023 "alerting metrics with grafana" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? best thing about grafana is their dashboards in which we can add promql query to visualize the response from data source like prometheus or thanos. multile features from importing dashboards to alerting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? their is nothing to dislike about grafana as of now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? in grafana we use to monitoring the critical logs using loki integration and multiple dashboards to monitor instance cpu,disk and memory usage and website monitorings and alerting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ashish K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ashish K.") AK Ashish K. Sr. Database Administrator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/28/2023 "graffana review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Grafanna is very useful in visualizing key metrics for our system we have been using its dashboards for various monitorings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? sometimes it takes time to load which is a downside of using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Graffana is helping us to visualize a lot of key metrices and APIs of our system which in turn is very helpful in maintaining system health and stability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") CB Verified User in Banking Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/12/2023 "Grafana Observability Tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? It's provides a great monitoring system with huge scalability and customisation with the requirements of business where we can design our own dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? As I have been using the monitoring tool grafana as a one stop place for our complete infrastructure hence I am unable to find any specific dislike but I feel being a open source tool it just has certain limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? It's provided a great insight of our infrastructure helping us with great visibility and observations in the system and helping us diagnose the system if and when required with minimal effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Douglas S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Douglas S.") DS Douglas S. Part Owner Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/19/2023 "Free, Powerful and customizable" 4/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? The possibility of monitoring everything aspect of your CPU, firewall network, container and VPS or other. For server maintenance or to understand an application's traffic (my case) is a beneficial tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Grafana doesn't work in real-time. The customization is an infinite possibility, but Grafana should provide some default equations for us. Also, you need to understand a bit more about how to config Prometheus and Node Exporter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Grafana helps us to monitor the stress of our apps and local servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Prashant D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prashant D.") PD Prashant D. DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/20/2023 "Open source analytics & visualization tool for DevOps" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? It is a web-based application that provides customizing dashboard when we integrate it with many other tools like elastic search, ELK, and Nagios. Also helpful for live server monitoring. Provides data in tables, maps, graphs, heatmaps and clock features in the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? We can not analyze data on grafana. If integration tools are not working correctly, grafana doesn't respond and shows api errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Grafana dashboard helps us monitor the server, API and application in the IT production environment. We can also configure alerts using grafana. Easy to maintain and immigration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Srikanth A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Srikanth A.") SA Srikanth A. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2023 "Best Open-Source monitoring tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Pretty customizable Dashboard design is very easy to change the type of tiles with the same data and is well integrated with InfluxDB. Very Fast UI which works with lot of data with a consistent UI Experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? I felt that Monitoring Alerts, we had trouble in setting up multiple Threshold based alerts which something missed, expected very dynamic way of setting alerts without any limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Monitoring various metrics with a very good UI, by which u can monitor various KPIs which are important in deciding a lot of important decisions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Meir T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Meir T.") MT Meir T. Cloud-Eng TL Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/20/2022 "Grafana feedback" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? The widgets option is enormous and can be connected with a lot of datasources. Can run on cheapest EC2 Good alert mechanism Copy widget from board to board is a nice option User management is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Love all. Nothing to dislike. Meet all my requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Monitoring now is straightforward All info can be placed in one place/dashboard In case you miss something - an Alert can be sent to your slack channel Color is everything... along you don't have red color in your dashboard, you can be sure your system is ok Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aditya K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aditya K.") AK Aditya K. Lead Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/17/2022 "Grafana Dashboards" 5/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? Grafana is our go to service and kind of single source of truth for all the live data dashboards as well as the custom dashboards that we have created by installing telegraf agent on the servers \> moving the required data to influxDB \> populating it in Grafana. Good thing about grafana is its capability to intake data from various dbs like influxDB, elasticsearch,airflow,logstash etc. Also, when it comes to dashboard styling, you get a lot of customizations for visualization like graph,gauge,heatmaps,alert list, pie chart etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? Learning how to ingest data to grafana is difficult. It takes a fair amount of knowledge in devops monitoring for you to populate data in grafana. Once, data is populated, creating dashboards using the data is like a cakewalk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? Grafana is being used here in Airtel to : 1. Capture live data from network towers and creating dashboards for that 2. Hive table category mapping 3. Individual servers health dashboards 4. Airflow related dashboards 5. Hadoop monitoring dashboards 6. Spark streaming dashboards 7. Abinitio dashboards 8. Space utilisation dashboards and 100s of which would be difficult to highlight here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Piyush M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Piyush M.") PM Piyush M. engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/10/2023 "One of best Monitoring tool" 4/5 What do you like best about Grafana Labs? SErvice provide by grafana Dashboard helps to make system stable and up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Grafana Labs? UI is not user friendly It can be improved in explore screen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Grafana Labs solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me to monitor my system, its usage disk space resources status and also I can see my applications log. 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? 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