Overview

Grafana

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GitHub Stars70.7K

Forks13.1K

Alerta

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Followers32

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Alerta vs Grafana: What are the differences?

# Introduction

1. **API Support**: Alerta provides a REST API for integrating with other tools and platforms, enabling seamless communication and automation. Grafana, on the other hand, is primarily a visualization tool and lacks a dedicated API for integrations.
2. **Alert Management**: Alerta focuses on alert management and visualization, offering features like deduplication, suppression, and correlating alerts to provide a comprehensive view of the system's health. Grafana, although capable of displaying alerts, does not offer the same level of alert management capabilities as Alerta.
3. **Scalability**: Alerta is designed to be highly scalable, with support for clustering and horizontal scaling to meet the needs of large-scale deployments. In comparison, Grafana might face challenges in maintaining performance and scalability for extensive monitoring environments.
4. **Routing and Escalation**: Alerta allows users to define flexible alert routing and escalation policies based on severity, time, and other criteria to ensure timely response and resolution. Grafana, being more focused on visualization, lacks advanced routing and escalation mechanisms for alerts.
5. **Plugin Ecosystem**: Grafana boasts a robust plugin ecosystem that extends its functionality by integrating with various data sources, visualizations, and alerting mechanisms. Alerta, although extensible, does not have as extensive a plugin ecosystem as Grafana.
6. **Customization**: Grafana offers extensive customization options for creating personalized dashboards and visualizations according to user preferences. Alerta, while customizable, may have limitations in terms of visual representation and dashboard customization compared to Grafana.

In Summary, Alerta and Grafana differ in their API support, alert management capabilities, scalability, routing and escalation features, plugin ecosystem, and customization options. Each tool has its strengths in monitoring and visualization, catering to different use cases and preferences.

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Jun 25, 2019

Needs advice

From a StackShare Community member: “We need better analytics & insights into our Elasticsearch cluster. Grafana, which ships with advanced support for Elasticsearch, looks great but isn’t officially supported/endorsed by Elastic. Kibana, on the other hand, is made and supported by Elastic. I’m wondering what people suggest in this situation."

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Susmita

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Jul 28, 2020

Needs adviceon

Grafana

Looking for a tool which can be used for mainly dashboard purposes, but here are the main requirements:

Must be able to get custom data from AS400,
Able to display automation test results,
System monitoring / Nginx API,
Able to get data from 3rd parties DB.

Grafana is almost solving all the problems, except AS400 and no database to get automation test results.

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Mat

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Oct 30, 2019

Needs advice

We're looking for a Monitoring and Logging tool. It has to support AWS (mostly 100% serverless, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, API GW, CloudFront, Autora, etc.), as well as Azure and GCP (for now mostly used as pure IaaS, with a lot of cognitive services, and mostly managed DB). Hopefully, something not as expensive as Datadog or New relic, as our SRE team could support the tool inhouse. At the moment, we primarily use CloudWatch for AWS and Pandora for most on-prem.

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Detailed Comparison

Grafana	Alerta
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.	It combines a JSON API server for receiving, processing and rendering alerts with a simple, yet effective Alerta Web UI and command-line tool.
Create, edit, save & search dashboards;Change column spans and row heights;Drag and drop panels to rearrange;Use InfluxDB or Elasticsearch as dashboard storage;Import & export dashboard (json file);Import dashboard from Graphite;Templating	Supports SQL; Flexible alert format; De-duplication and simple correlation
Statistics
GitHub Stars 70.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 13.1K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 18.4K	Stacks 26
Followers 14.6K	Followers 32
Votes 415	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 89 Beautiful 68 Graphs are interactive 57 Free 56 Easy 34 Nicer than the Graphite web interface Cons 1 No interactive query builder	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Graphite InfluxDB	Slack Prometheus New Relic PagerDuty Kibana InfluxDB Nagios Amazon CloudWatch Sensu Zabbix

What are some alternatives to Grafana, Alerta?

Kibana

Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

Nagios

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

Netdata

Netdata collects metrics per second & presents them in low-latency dashboards. It's designed to run on all of your physical & virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters & edge/IoT devices, to monitor systems, containers & apps

Zabbix

Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

Sensu

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments.

Graphite

Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand

Lumigo

Lumigo is an observability platform built for developers, unifying distributed tracing with payload data, log management, and real-time metrics to help you deeply understand and troubleshoot your systems.

StatsD

It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).