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Do you think 91% of people using grafana is an accurate figure? Seems very high.

Cwizard 3y ago
91% of people that filled in their survey I think.
buro9 3y ago
I work at Grafana, and just attended KubeCon, even when not near the booth but just in Grafana t-shirts I was stopped frequently by individuals saying how much they love Grafana, how it just works, how we should just keep doing what we're doing... there's strong signal there (though this is KubeCon, and K8s isn't the whole industry by a long shot). But even I would rationally question the survey results, as like all surveys it would only represent those surveyed. If you scroll to the bottom of the article there is a section "About the respondents and methodology" and to quote, "This year, 306 people participated in the Grafana Labs Observability Survey. We did not contract an outside agency to solicit responses. Instead, we reached out to our community to participate, through our website, social media, and at various Grafana Labs and OSS events". So let's be upfront here, it's a biased and small sample, but the consistent methodology with prior years means that the directional trends can be identified, even if you cannot extrapolate any specific number to the whole industry. The indicative signals in there for trends and direction... but it's not quite a 100K audience from all industries and representative of wider engineering. The number is high due to who was asked to respond.
- jasonjmcghee 3y ago
  I personally chose and use grafana. Not commenting on whether or not people should use it. 91% of people claimed to do anything gives me pause. The only place Datadog was mentioned was in invisible text. (Search the page) Which seems absolutely crazy to me
brylie 3y ago
As another commenter pointed out, this survey probably suffers from selection bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
dijit 3y ago
I dont have any reason to think it’s inaccurate. What alternative dashboards are there? I have even seen it used in demos where the host works for a company that has a first party dashboard product. (google, amazon etc)
- jasonjmcghee 3y ago
  Many. Datadog, New Relic, SigNoz, etc. Search for "grafana alternatives"
  - pranay01 3y ago
    Thanks for mentioning SigNoz. Here's our github repo in case anyone wants to check it out - https://github.com/signoz/signoz https://github.com/signoz/signoz
- nikolay_sivko 3y ago
  Take a look at https://github.com/coroot/coroot https://github.com/coroot/coroot (Apache 2.0). It offers plenty of ready-to-use dashboards and inspections
tootie 3y ago
And zero use New Relic?
pranay01 3y ago
.. Of Grafana labs , by Grafana labs, for Grafana labs :)

91% of people that filled in their survey I think.

I work at Grafana, and just attended KubeCon, even when not near the booth but just in Grafana t-shirts I was stopped frequently by individuals saying how much they love Grafana, how it just works, how we should just keep doing what we're doing... there's strong signal there (though this is KubeCon, and K8s isn't the whole industry by a long shot). But even I would rationally question the survey results, as like all surveys it would only represent those surveyed. If you scroll to the bottom of the article there is a section "About the respondents and methodology" and to quote, "This year, 306 people participated in the Grafana Labs Observability Survey. We did not contract an outside agency to solicit responses. Instead, we reached out to our community to participate, through our website, social media, and at various Grafana Labs and OSS events". So let's be upfront here, it's a biased and small sample, but the consistent methodology with prior years means that the directional trends can be identified, even if you cannot extrapolate any specific number to the whole industry. The indicative signals in there for trends and direction... but it's not quite a 100K audience from all industries and representative of wider engineering. The number is high due to who was asked to respond.

jasonjmcghee 3y ago
I personally chose and use grafana. Not commenting on whether or not people should use it. 91% of people claimed to do anything gives me pause. The only place Datadog was mentioned was in invisible text. (Search the page) Which seems absolutely crazy to me

brylie 3y ago

As another commenter pointed out, this survey probably suffers from selection bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

dijit 3y ago

I dont have any reason to think it’s inaccurate. What alternative dashboards are there? I have even seen it used in demos where the host works for a company that has a first party dashboard product. (google, amazon etc)

jasonjmcghee 3y ago
Many. Datadog, New Relic, SigNoz, etc. Search for "grafana alternatives"
- pranay01 3y ago
  Thanks for mentioning SigNoz. Here's our github repo in case anyone wants to check it out - https://github.com/signoz/signoz https://github.com/signoz/signoz
nikolay_sivko 3y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/coroot/coroot https://github.com/coroot/coroot (Apache 2.0). It offers plenty of ready-to-use dashboards and inspections

tootie 3y ago

And zero use New Relic?

pranay01 3y ago

.. Of Grafana labs , by Grafana labs, for Grafana labs :)