--- description: Review of Grafana Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Grafana | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Network Monitoring Tools](/directory/4307/network-monitoring/software) > [Grafana](/software/315327/grafana) # Grafana Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/315327/grafana Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/315327/grafana?page=2) > Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OpenTelemetry support. Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—whether self-managed or in the cloud. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 71 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 71 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Grafana Labs ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 25,000.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - AI/Machine Learning - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Monitoring - Activity Tracking - Ad hoc Query - Ad hoc Reporting - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Analytics - Anomaly Detection - Application Management - Application-Level Analysis - Asset Discovery - Audit Management - Audit Trail - Bandwidth Monitoring - Baseline Manager - Bottleneck Identification ## Integrations (63 total) - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - AWS IoT - AWS X-Ray - Aerospike - Apache Airflow - Apache Cassandra - Apache CouchDB - Apache Solr - Apache Spark - Apache Tomcat - AppDynamics - Asterisk - Catchpoint - Cilium - Cloudflare ... and 48 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Network Monitoring Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4307/network-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Network Monitoring Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4307/network-monitoring/software) - [Observability Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4534/observability/software) - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4140/application-performance-management/software) - [Database Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4333/database-monitoring/software) - [Log Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4551/log-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[LogicMonitor](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/240623/logicmonitor) — 4.6/5 (119 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Best software for monitoring dashboards" — 5.0/5 > **Belmin** | *15 June 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "insight and understanding into your application" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *15 February 2024* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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 > > With Grafana you get insight and understanding into your application, easy setup dashboards. ----- ### "Grafana for proof of concept" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *22 February 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Low-code software that is very easy to create meaningful visualizations and dashboards that can be deployed in a real-life scenario within a few hours. > > **Cons**: The dark mode colours can be a bit dull and the UI can be improved a lot more. ----- ### "Experience with Grafana" — 4.0/5 > **Carlos Hugo Martin** | *31 March 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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. > > Se ha utilizado Grafana para generar dashboards de monitoreo, pudiendo centralizar las métricas de distintas soluciones de monitoreo como Prometheus, Zabbix, etc. ----- ### "Visualization for your data" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *27 January 2022* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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. > > Overall we have been able to accomplish something we never have before and track trends and pin point possible issues. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/315327/grafana?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/315327/grafana) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data