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Grafana is a terribly ran company that once made a pretty decent OSS dashboard system. Stay away from them for anything but some charts.

lfmunoz4 3y ago
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detaro 3y ago
And even the dashboard system kinda feels like there should be something better, but somehow there isn't (or I don't know it).
- x86a 3y ago
  Is Grafana (the product) really that bad? we've been using it for years with hundreds of dashboards and have never had any complaints* *until recently... the new "time series" panel is a disaster
  - ilyt 3y ago
    It's not bad. You can question some decisions about it but currently and for last few years it's absolute peak with no competition in industry
  - detaro 3y ago
    no, it's not "that bad", but it also constantly annoys me with things that don't feel right, even though they generally can be made to do what I want in the end. It just feels odd to me that this is the best there is given how big a deal has been made about monitoring in the past decade.
- ilyt 3y ago
  You only think that because you haven't seen the alternatives...
sph 3y ago
I'm building a one-man SaaS and I'm currently shopping for a hosted monitoring service. Got the free trial of Grafana Cloud but I'm not a fan of their products in general. I know Prometheus, I have used DataDog in the past but seems crazy expensive spread thin with 1001 features. What's a good all-in-one cloud monitoring solution that might optionally deal with logs as well? Log monitoring is not actually a priority at this stage, I just want something to track metrics, chart them and to alert me when the servers are on fire. Something open-source adjacent and not crazily expensive would be best. As I said I know Prometheus, but for some reason it's so flexible and free form I really do not enjoy using it.
- ChrisCooney 3y ago
  Check out Coralogix! It comes in at a fraction of the price of DataDog (typically a 40-70% cost reduction for migrating customers), no service tiering (so you instantly get support, managed onboarding etc) with a complete, end to end, open source experience (even archived logs are stored in Parquet). For your use case, Coralogix is awesome. It comes with a managed Grafana instance, if you wish to use that interface, or a custom dashboarding solution, metric driven alarms, release tagging, and much more. You can find out more at https://coralogix.com/platform/metrics/ https://coralogix.com/platform/metrics/

lfmunoz4 3y ago

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detaro 3y ago

And even the dashboard system kinda feels like there should be something better, but somehow there isn't (or I don't know it).

x86a 3y ago
Is Grafana (the product) really that bad? we've been using it for years with hundreds of dashboards and have never had any complaints* *until recently... the new "time series" panel is a disaster
- ilyt 3y ago
  It's not bad. You can question some decisions about it but currently and for last few years it's absolute peak with no competition in industry
- detaro 3y ago
  no, it's not "that bad", but it also constantly annoys me with things that don't feel right, even though they generally can be made to do what I want in the end. It just feels odd to me that this is the best there is given how big a deal has been made about monitoring in the past decade.
ilyt 3y ago
You only think that because you haven't seen the alternatives...

sph 3y ago

I'm building a one-man SaaS and I'm currently shopping for a hosted monitoring service. Got the free trial of Grafana Cloud but I'm not a fan of their products in general. I know Prometheus, I have used DataDog in the past but seems crazy expensive spread thin with 1001 features. What's a good all-in-one cloud monitoring solution that might optionally deal with logs as well? Log monitoring is not actually a priority at this stage, I just want something to track metrics, chart them and to alert me when the servers are on fire. Something open-source adjacent and not crazily expensive would be best. As I said I know Prometheus, but for some reason it's so flexible and free form I really do not enjoy using it.

ChrisCooney 3y ago
Check out Coralogix! It comes in at a fraction of the price of DataDog (typically a 40-70% cost reduction for migrating customers), no service tiering (so you instantly get support, managed onboarding etc) with a complete, end to end, open source experience (even archived logs are stored in Parquet). For your use case, Coralogix is awesome. It comes with a managed Grafana instance, if you wish to use that interface, or a custom dashboarding solution, metric driven alarms, release tagging, and much more. You can find out more at https://coralogix.com/platform/metrics/ https://coralogix.com/platform/metrics/