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Pros of Grafana
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  • 89
    Beautiful
  • 68
    Graphs are interactive
  • 57
    Free
  • 56
    Easy
  • 34
    Nicer than the Graphite web interface
  • 26
    Many integrations
  • 18
    Can build dashboards
  • 10
    Easy to specify time window
  • 10
    Can collaborate on dashboards
  • 9
    Dashboards contain number tiles
  • 5
    Open Source
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    Integration with InfluxDB
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    Click and drag to zoom in
  • 4
    Authentification and users management
  • 4
    Threshold limits in graphs
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    Alerts
  • 3
    It is open to cloud watch and many database
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    Simple and native support to Prometheus
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    Great community support
  • 2
    You can use this for development to check memcache
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    You can visualize real time data to put alerts
  • 0
    Grapsh as code
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    Plugin visualizationa
  • 6
    Easy to use
  • 6
    Easy to install and configure
  • 4
    Flexible query language
  • 3
    Free unlimited one-person version
  • 3
    Extensive plug-ins and integrations
  • 3
    Beautiful charts and dashboards
  • 1
    Support

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Cons of Grafana
Cons of Seq
  • 1
    No interactive query builder
  • 1
    This is a library tied to seq log storage
  • 1
    It is not free

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What is Grafana?

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.

What is Seq?

Seq is a self-hosted server for structured log search, analysis, and alerting. It can be hosted on Windows or Linux/Docker, and has integrations for most popular structured logging libraries.

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Kibana
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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.
Graphite
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