I really liked Grafana, and I was using it for my personal servers monitoring, using collectd and InfluxDB, but recent updates changed everything, collectd became second class citizen with InfluxDB, and I was unable to replicate my queries with the new Grafana and InfluxDB.
I do not know if it is Grafana or InfluxDB faults (I guess IDB changed their API and Grafana followed), but I got lost.
I went back to plain RRDTool with a few static HTML pages with my graphs on it.
I don't know how you could this turning point where a tool become too complicated for "personal-pro" use, but I've seen this quite a lot (docker, chef.io, grafana).
I still think grafana is a great product, but it has sailed in the "enterprise" territory.
Im using grafana+influx for my home automation setup. I wanted to use my grafana instance through my regular https endpoint on the internet, and I realized I maybe should upgrade it.
I checked the changelog, and each and very version had massive amounts of changes and I realized I will never be able to simply upgrade this monolith, its not just likely to break but almost guaranteed. I ended up not exposing my old installs and not doing anything...
I’m still using carbon/graphite/whisper. Despite being a MySQL expert I just got lost trying to write influxdb queries compared to the Grafana query editor for graphite. I really need to try and convert at some point.
I do not know if it is Grafana or InfluxDB faults (I guess IDB changed their API and Grafana followed), but I got lost.
I went back to plain RRDTool with a few static HTML pages with my graphs on it.
I don't know how you could this turning point where a tool become too complicated for "personal-pro" use, but I've seen this quite a lot (docker, chef.io, grafana).
I still think grafana is a great product, but it has sailed in the "enterprise" territory.