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No offense but Grafana is only as good as the weaker piece in the monitoring chain.

Having nice graphs is nice... until they fall apart because the source is unavailable.

And that doesn't help with alerts either. (I tested the alerts in the v4 beta, it's just not comparable to the better alerting tools out there).

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No offense taken ;) You're spot on about needing a solid and scalable backend; it’s more than 'nice graphs'. We think Grafana is a great piece in the chain to start with. We're trying to put as much momentum behind it as our burgeoning company will support.

The alerting in v4.0 is just the beginning. Torkel and the team have tried to optimize for the “relatively simple" 80% of alert use cases.

We are fans of other, more sophisticated open source alerting tools like Bosun, and you can be sure that we'll be both improving our alerting capabilities in 4.x

what are you missing compared to other alerting tools?

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