[nopzor]

Agree that the SaaS offerings are a lot more turnkey; the integrations and polish that make all the difference.

What you call a 'clusterfuck' is really a wider ecosystem. It would be pretty crazy for a single organization to use all or even most of the tools that you list.

Right now, people accept high degrees of cost (especially for at scale users) and lock-in, in exchange for the convenience of SaaS. Or, they go open source (which to your point, certainly is an investment in time)

Watch out for what team Grafana will be doing in 2017. Our plan is to provide a fully turnkey, hosted offering based around Grafana (and a handful of other open source tools). OpenSaaS.

We hope that for many users, this can be a third choice, and in some ways the best of both worlds.

[user5994461]

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).

[nopzor]

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

[yobo]

what are you missing compared to other alerting tools?

[dmitrios]

As long as enterprises can will understand that they can get support options for Grafana(on-prem, SaaS, etc.) it just comes down to choosing the most economic option. I see benefit in symmetry for enterprise who has hybrid or still mostly in their datacenter.