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 August 10, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
+2 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 894 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 21 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 has been dominated by bug reports and reliability concerns, which together account for the majority of mentions in the period. Commenters flagged multiple regressions tied to version 13.1.0, including organization switching issues, incorrect log levels, and alerting breadcrumb problems. Several mentions praised integrations and specific features, though complaints about missing functionality and UI issues were also prominent. Overall sentiment appears notably negative despite praise themes holding steady from 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 894 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 894 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...”
“Documentation needed for migrating Grafana secret key. Since commit 8129a2d1fa58534c855665faddd4608e19e7a0bb, services.grafana.settings.security.secret_key is no longer hard-coded, which is good. As a casual user it would be great to also know how to migrate to this new situation...”
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- Bug reports and reliability complaints dominated the conversation, far outnumbering positive themes across the window.
- Sentiment trended slightly downward after a mid-period recovery, with the densest discussion cluster landing in cautiously negative territory in late June.
- Opinion was most divided over recent version upgrades, which some commenters praised for new features while many others tied directly to regressions.
- Integration strengths and feature praise provided a meaningful counterweight but were not enough to offset the volume of frustration in the discussion.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Good integrations | 156 |
| Strong features | 139 |
| Feature requests | 83 |
| Easy to use | 50 |
| New releases | 20 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 424 |
| Reliability | 224 |
| Missing features | 152 |
| UI frustrations | 85 |
| Lacking integrations | 56 |
Discussion around Grafana over this four-week window was dominated by a heavy undercurrent of frustration, with bug reports and reliability concerns accounting for the largest share of all mentions by a wide margin. Commenters surfaced a recurring pattern of regressions tied to specific version upgrades, particularly around the 13.1.0 release, with sample mentions pointing to issues ranging from broken organization-switching behavior to misbehaving alerting breadcrumbs and unexpected debug log volumes at incorrect severity levels. The volume of complaint-side themes substantially outweighed praise, and several mentions framed reliability not as an occasional stumble but as a persistent concern following upgrades.
Sentiment movement across the tracked weeks was notably volatile given the low and inconsistent mention counts at certain intervals, which makes some data points less reliable as signals. That said, the trajectory started in negative territory, recovered modestly through early June, then pulled back again before a brief spike that coincided with very low mention volume. The bulk of conversation landed in a dense cluster in late June, where the score settled into cautiously negative range, suggesting the broader community pulse remained skeptical even as isolated pockets of discussion were more positive.
On the praise side, commenters did highlight integration quality and specific feature strengths in meaningful numbers, pointing to a segment of the user base that values Grafana's ecosystem breadth. Ease of use also drew positive mentions, though at much lower frequency than integration-focused praise. Feature requests appeared in notable volume alongside missing-feature complaints, suggesting an engaged community that sees potential but feels the product is not yet where they want it.
Opinion was most divided around upgrade experiences. Some commenters framed recent releases as genuinely expanding capability, while a larger share of visible discussion treated the same updates as sources of new breakage. UI complaints and integration gaps added further friction to the narrative, though neither reached the intensity of the core bug and reliability conversation.
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
+2 over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 894 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 21 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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