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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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For our Predictive Analytics platform, we have used both Grafana and Kibana

Kibana has predictions and ML algorithms support, so if you need them, you may be better off with Kibana . The multi-variate analysis features it provide are very unique (not available in Grafana).

For everything else, definitely Grafana . Especially the number of supported data sources, and plugins clearly makes Grafana a winner (in just visualization and reporting sense). Creating your own plugin is also very easy. The top pros of Grafana (which it does better than Kibana ) are:

  • Creating and organizing visualization panels
  • Templating the panels on dashboards for repetetive tasks
  • Realtime monitoring, filtering of charts based on conditions and variables
  • Export / Import in JSON format (that allows you to version and save your dashboard as part of git)
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I use both Kibana and Grafana on my workplace: Kibana for logging and Grafana for monitoring. Since you already work with Elasticsearch, I think Kibana is the safest choice in terms of ease of use and variety of messages it can manage, while Grafana has still (in my opinion) a strong link to metrics

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After looking for a way to monitor or at least get a better overview of our infrastructure, we found out that Grafana (which I previously only used in ELK stacks) has a plugin available to fully integrate with Amazon CloudWatch . Which makes it way better for our use-case than the offer of the different competitors (most of them are even paid). There is also a CloudFlare plugin available, the platform we use to serve our DNS requests. Although we are a big fan of https://smashing.github.io/ (previously dashing), for now we are starting with Grafana .

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I use Kibana because it ships with the ELK stack. I don't find it as powerful as Splunk however it is light years above grepping through log files. We previously used Grafana but found it to be annoying to maintain a separate tool outside of the ELK stack. We were able to get everything we needed from Kibana.

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Kibana should be sufficient in this architecture for decent analytics, if stronger metrics is needed then combine with Grafana. Datadog also offers nice overview but there's no need for it in this case unless you need more monitoring and alerting (and more technicalities).

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I use Grafana because it is without a doubt the best way to visualize metrics

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Povilas Brilius
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@Kibana, of course, because @Grafana looks like amateur sort of solution, crammed with query builder grouping aggregates, but in essence, as recommended by CERN - KIbana is the corporate (startup vectored) decision.

Furthermore, @Kibana comes with complexity adhering ELK stack, whereas @InfluxDB + @Grafana & co. recently have become sophisticated development conglomerate instead of advancing towards a understandable installation step by step inheritance.

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Pros of Kibana
Pros of Rollbar
Pros of Sumo Logic
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    Easy to setup
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    Free
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    Can search text
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    Has pie chart
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    X-axis is not restricted to timestamp
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    Easy queries and is a good way to view logs
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    Supports Plugins
  • 4
    Dev Tools
  • 3
    Can build dashboards
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    More "user-friendly"
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    Out-of-Box Dashboards/Analytics for Metrics/Heartbeat
  • 2
    Easy to drill-down
  • 1
    Up and running
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    Consolidates similar errors by impact
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    Centralize error management
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    Slack integration
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    Github integration
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    Usage based pricing
  • 32
    Insane customer support
  • 23
    Instant search
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    Heroku integration
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    Consolidate errors by OS
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    Great Free Plan
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    Trello integration
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    Flexible logging (not just exceptions)
  • 11
    Simple yet powerful error tracking tool
  • 9
    Multiple Language Support
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    Consolidate errors by browser
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    Easy setup
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    Query errors with RQL
  • 5
    Best rails exception handler
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    Deployment tracking is a nice free bonus
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    Awesome service
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    Simple and fast integration
  • 4
    Easy setup, friendly ui, demo, lots of integrations
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    Beat your users to the error report
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    Server-side + client-side
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    Errors Analysis
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    Clear and concise information.
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    Powerful
  • 2
    Mailgun integration
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    Easy integration with sails.js
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    Bitbucket integration
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    Clear errors on deploy or push
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    Easy Set up familiar UI that doesn't make you look dumb
  • 1
    Teams
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    Gitlab integration
  • 11
    Search capabilities
  • 5
    Live event streaming
  • 3
    Pci 3.0 compliant
  • 2
    Easy to setup

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Cons of Sumo Logic
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    Unintuituve
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    Elasticsearch is huge
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    Hardweight UI
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    Works on top of elastic only
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      Expensive
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      Occasionally unreliable log ingestion
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      Missing Monitoring

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    What is 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.

    What is Rollbar?

    Rollbar is the leading continuous code improvement platform that proactively discovers, predicts, and remediates errors with real-time AI-assisted workflows. With Rollbar, developers continually improve their code and constantly innovate ra

    What is Sumo Logic?

    Cloud-based machine data analytics platform that enables companies to proactively identify availability and performance issues in their infrastructure, improve their security posture and enhance application rollouts. Companies using Sumo Logic reduce their mean-time-to-resolution by 50% and can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, annually. Customers include Netflix, Medallia, Orange, and GoGo Inflight.

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