Amazon QuickSight vs. Grafana

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon QuickSight
Score 6.2 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$3
per month per user
Grafana
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Pricing
Amazon QuickSightGrafana
Editions & Modules
Reader
$3
per month per user
Author
$24
per month per user
Reader Pro
$24
per month per user
Author Pro
$50
per month per user
Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon QuickSightGrafana
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsProspective buyers can also purchase a set number of sessions or questions in lieu of a monthly subscription.
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Community Pulse
Amazon QuickSightGrafana
Considered Both Products
Amazon QuickSight
Chose Amazon QuickSight
As per our requirement, the Amazon Eco System leads us to use the Amazon Quick Sight platform. It works well with Redshift datasources.
Chose Amazon QuickSight
Due to the fact that our platform infrastructure is mainly based on AWS, it was seamless and effortless for integration. Our second consideration is the operating cost in which QuickSight is reasonably low compared to other tools we had evaluated. From a development …
Chose Amazon QuickSight
QuickSight is best suited to augment your other BI solutions, not as a primary tool. It still very immature when you compare it to products like Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft Power BI and others. However, it is very easy to get connected to data sources and a good way to …
Chose Amazon QuickSight
All of the other reporting platforms my organization has used previously were within our CRM and not a standalone program. In that we were very limited in being able to slice and dice the data the way that we wanted to.
Chose Amazon QuickSight
In our case, we are storing our large amount of data in the cloud so using QuickSight adds up to the performance of the reporting. We are using it as a secondary reporting tool so that a business user can generate their own report. We are using Tableau as our primary reporting …
Grafana
Chose Grafana
Easy to use
Easy to configure
Cost efficient
Chose Grafana
Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't …
Chose Grafana
Grafana gives more flexibility to explore its features. A new user can explore experiment and work with free Grafana account and find if it is suitable for them.Other platforms don't have the features in their freemium version that Grafana has. It lets us try features of …
Chose Grafana
Grafana has a direct plugin to Icinga monitoring solution and allowed for easy configuration for us. At the time of implementation, other services did not have such an integration. As we already had a very customized and heavily introduced monitoring solution in place, we …
Chose Grafana
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
Features
Amazon QuickSightGrafana
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
Grafana
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
7.2
Ratings
11% below category average
Grafana
6.8
Ratings
16% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
Ratings
18% below category average
Grafana
8.4
Ratings
0% below category average
Publish to Web8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
Ratings
32% below category average
Grafana
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics3.50 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
8.0
Ratings
6% below category average
Grafana
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
Ratings
67% below category average
Grafana
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application3.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
6.0
Ratings
26% below category average
Grafana
-
Ratings
REST API6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon QuickSightGrafana
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon QuickSightGrafana
Likelihood to Recommend
I'm likely to recommend it because it would become so native if other cloud services are based on AWS infrastructure, like our current setup. It is very seamlessly integrated with other services to feed in data for the visualization. In addition, supporting a reasonably large number of users concurrently is not an issue and should be able to scale horizontally as needed.
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Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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Pros
  • Lightweight and serverless BI tool that can be used for niche dashboards.
  • Its integration into other AWS Services is one of its most appealing features.
  • The low monthly cost is another benefit.
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  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Cons
  • One of the primary challenges I've had with Amazon QuickSight so far is that some of the reports I want to build use data from different data sets. Instead of being able to put all of the information I want to see into one report.
  • Some of our Amazon QuickSight reports only update every 24 hours. It would be great to see that data in real-time.
  • I would remove the various time zones from Amazon QuickSight and only use the time zone we are in.
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  • Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners
  • Notification alert message templates need to be simplified
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Usability
It is easy to use and set up no need to put in so much effort. Once build, the dashboard can be used with multiple clients with the same domain. It provides multiple connectivity options which makes it a versatile option for reporting.
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Great usage in terms of monitoring of any application from backend to frontend and even any AWS resource via cloud watch and other connectors. Easy to use and configure personalised dash boarding and alerting features. Cost efficient and easy to setup and run, no mazor scaling challenges in terms of managing and maintaining the stack, easy to configure via Prometheus, influx and other connectors
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Support Rating
They provide proper support when needed. They are always ready to provide the box solution and make things easier for users.
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Alternatives Considered
As per our requirement, the Amazon Eco System leads us to use the Amazon Quick Sight platform. It works well with Redshift datasources.
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Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't offer nearly as much flexibility. The other thing I like about Grafana is their storage usage is much lower compared to similar tools and competitors
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Return on Investment
  • Cost Effective
  • Easy setup and maintenance
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  • It has kicked out some of our paid monitoring and visualization tools.
  • Now Monitoring, Visualization and Alerting is being done in a single platform.
  • It made monitoring and visualization very easy for us.
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