Grafana vs Loggly: What are the differences?
Developers describe Grafana as "Open source Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor". 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. On the other hand, Loggly is detailed as "Log Management, Simplified in the Cloud". The world's most popular cloud-based log management service delivers application intelligence.
Grafana and Loggly are primarily classified as "Monitoring" and "Log Management" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Grafana are:
- Create, edit, save & search dashboards
- Change column spans and row heights
- Drag and drop panels to rearrange
On the other hand, Loggly provides the following key features:
- See what your application is doing during development
- Catch exceptions and track execution flow
- Graph and report on the number of errors generated
"Beautiful" is the top reason why over 65 developers like Grafana, while over 35 developers mention "Centralized log management" as the leading cause for choosing Loggly.
Grafana is an open source tool with 29.3K GitHub stars and 5.55K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Grafana's open source repository on GitHub.
Oscar Health, Docplanner, and Harvest are some of the popular companies that use Grafana, whereas Loggly is used by Instacart, Heroku, and Movielala. Grafana has a broader approval, being mentioned in 559 company stacks & 313 developers stacks; compared to Loggly, which is listed in 95 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.