33 engineers on Hacker News describe using Grafana first-hand: 10 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“We run our own grafana/lgtm stack at work, we're outgrowing it and we're evaluating the saas offerings.”
endorse · production · znpy · 2026-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Grafana seems to have with PostgreSQL client certs in v11/v12”
regret · production · tetha · 2026-04-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“AI and I spent and afternoon setting up a Prometheus / grafana server, and wiring celery into it. Has been a game changer.”
endorse · production · brianwawok · 2026-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“once we migrated to self hosted on AWS from a vendor. Most times it was fine, but if we had a bug... things would start to hiccup.”
mixed · production · hinkley · 2026-01-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a prom+otel+xray stack at scale with grafana as the interface.”
endorse · production · drzaiusx11 · 2025-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Its practically impossible to run a software shop without them”
endorse · production · yarekt · 2025-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“What happens when a license expires on Grafana? They fucking shut down all your shit cold turkey. Don't care if you're in prod”
regret · production · jterrys · 2025-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Later we switched to Promethius/Grafana and got the same functionality for pennies on the dollar.”
endorse · production · talldayo · 2024-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Grafana has definitely set the standard for OSS metrics, but I personally haven't had a lot of success using their tools outside of metrics.”
mixed · personal · mikeshi42 · 2023-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“far simpler to create dashboards and write queries in.”
endorse · production · EdwardDiego · 2023-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a nice Grafana dashboard based off our App Insights logs that helps us get a birds-eye view”
endorse · production · haacked · 2022-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Grafana is effortless to run, really dead simple.”
endorse · production · lawrjone · 2020-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My team is using Loki + Grafana and we're pretty happy with it.”
endorse · production · jrudolph · 2020-01-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Grafana for a few years now, and personally built-in alerting is the only thing I would have added.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · Mahn · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rather than teach the agent where grafana is, how to use a sentry trace id to find a otel traceparent”
neutral · production · hadlock · 2026-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the usual Prometheus/Grafana/Loki”
neutral · production · adamcharnock · 2026-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated all of our observability from Datadog to Grafana/AMP because it's much much cheaper”
neutral · production · zaptheimpaler · 2026-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“creating Grafana dashboards (again, production)”
neutral · production · rtp4me · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched metrics and logs from an Elastic stack to Prometheus/Thanos/Loki/Grafana about two years ago.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · parliament32 · 2025-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Built something generic to monitor MCP servers using events + tinybird + prometheus + grafana”
neutral · production · alrocar · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“move some workloads to arm (databases, cache, Argo, grafana, etc)”
neutral · production · feydaykyn · 2022-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used rtl-sdr to pipe the data into a TimescaleDB instance (and slapped Grafana in front of it).”
neutral · personal · inferiorhuman · 2022-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just to name the ones we use at Helsinki City.”
neutral · production · gatestone · 2021-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We made the schema, functions, and Grafana dashboard open source”
neutral · production · preetamjinka · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“FreeBSD with send/receive pairs to another 7PB location monitoring with Grafana, delayed sync”
neutral · production · Datagenerator · 2021-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”
neutral · production · ivyabc · 2020-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They mmap structs onto files under /dev/shm/ for status reporting... formats into snapshot reports logged and displayed in grafana.”
neutral · production · ncmncm · 2020-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use thanos as the entry point that Grafana speaks to, so you get aggregated results.”
neutral · production · lawrjone · 2020-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some queries where unable or cumbersome to translate into Influx query language (especially inside Grafana)”
neutral · production · aequitas · 2017-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For my own small company we use Kibana (the old one that doesn't require NodeJS), Grafana, and Jenkins.”
neutral · production · agentgt · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Grafana for our own internal usage (albeit we do have customer viewable analytics but it is proprietary hardcoded panes).”
neutral · production · agentgt · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Grafana for production dashboards with a KairosDB”
neutral · production · coredog64 · 2016-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?