Grafana
Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform that helps teams query, visualize, and alert on metrics and logs.
About this data
Updated July 6, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
+1 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 963 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 24 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
Weekly Sentiment Trend
Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.
This week in public discussion
Recent discussion around Grafana leaned heavily negative over the past several weeks, with bugs and reliability drawing the most complaints by a wide margin across 528 mentions. Commenters flagged specific issues including broken page refreshes after organization switching in 13.1.0, alerting breadcrumb problems, and post-upgrade metric errors in Alloy. On the positive side, several mentions praised integrations and highlighted useful features, with ease of use also receiving some favorable attention. The pulse score held flat compared to the prior period.
Read the deeper analysisAI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Sentiment mix by week
How the tone of public discussion splits each week.
Ringed points mark weeks with unusually high discussion volume, more than double this product's typical week.
Most-discussed praise
Most-discussed complaints
Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.
How Grafana compares
Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Coding.
Where the mentions come from
Share of the 963 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 963 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.
“Elasticsearch datasources broken after upgrade to grafana 13.0.1. ### What happened? After the update to grafana 13.0.1, all our preconfigured elasticsearch datasources are broken, showing Data source not found in the UI. If I look at the underlying requests, there is a request t...”
“Hi HN, I'm Kaushik, and I built Rocketgraph. I believe that while other spaces have caught up to the AI wave, the observability space is still lagging behind, using the same tools and dashboards that we use to analyse logs from human-written code. But now the code is written and ...”
“Organizations: manual page refresh required after switching active organization in 13.1.0. ### What happened? After upgrade to 13.1.0, Grafana no longer refreshes the page after I switch the active organization. After the switch, Grafana still shows data (dashboards, logs, metric...”
“database backend: enforcement of Oracle MySQL 8 collation type. ### What happened? we use MariaDB 10.x for our Grafana instances. I upgraded Grafana from version 12.3 to 12.4 but the service no longer starts and it’s throwing this error in the logs: It turns out this collation is...”
“Grafana dashboard broken. ### Describe the bug As the snapshot shown, many of the charts showns "no data". Maybe the metrics used by the dashboard have renamed or gone? How to reproduce 1. Hosting authentik 2025.10.3 with ldap outpost 2. Setup prom and scrape metrics from authenr...”
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- Bug reports and reliability complaints dominated the conversation by a wide margin, driven largely by friction around recent major version upgrades.
- Sentiment dipped early in the window, recovered modestly through early June, then softened again as a large wave of upgrade-related mentions arrived.
- Integration quality and feature depth drew genuine praise, but these positives were outweighed by the volume of defect and reliability discussion.
- Opinion was divided over the grafana-cli deprecation and version release transparency, with some commenters accepting the changes and others expressing clear frustration.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Good integrations | 158 |
| Strong features | 141 |
| Feature requests | 85 |
| Easy to use | 51 |
| New releases | 21 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 457 |
| Reliability | 235 |
| Missing features | 168 |
| UI frustrations | 91 |
| Lacking integrations | 61 |
Public discussion of Grafana over this four-week window was heavily weighted toward frustration, with bug reports and reliability concerns accounting for the bulk of negative mentions. Commenters filed a high volume of specific defect reports, many tied to recent version upgrades, particularly around the 13.x release line. Sample mentions illustrated recurring themes: broken navigation after organization switching, deprecated CLI tooling creating workflow disruption, and alerting breadcrumb failures. The sheer count of bug-related mentions dwarfed praise-side themes by a wide margin, suggesting the upgrade cycle introduced more friction than the community had anticipated.
On the positive side, integration-related praise was the single strongest counter-signal, with a notable number of mentions appreciating how Grafana connects with external systems. Feature praise also registered meaningfully, and a smaller cluster of commenters highlighted ease of use, indicating that for users operating in stable environments the core experience still drew approval. UI praise was comparatively thin, and the UI complaint theme was proportionally more prominent, suggesting interface changes in recent releases landed unevenly.
The score trajectory over the window showed an early low point, a modest recovery through late May and early June, then a dip back in mid-June before stabilizing. The largest concentration of mentions arrived in the final stretch of the window, and that surge corresponded with a slight downward pull in tone, consistent with a wave of upgrade-related issue reports entering public channels at scale.
Opinion was divided most visibly around the deprecation of grafana-cli. Discussion suggested some users viewed the consolidation into the server binary as a reasonable architectural move, while others expressed frustration at the operational disruption it caused. Version transparency also drew divided sentiment, with commenters questioning release tagging practices alongside others who appeared unbothered by the discrepancy.
AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Member perspectives
Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.
Overall Pulse Score
+1 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 963 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 24 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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