Google Data Studio vs Grafana Comparison

Google Data Studio

Dashboard Software

4.1 794 user ratings

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Grafana

Dashboard Software

4.7 72 user ratings

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Overview

Description	Google Data Studio is a comprehensive data optimisation platform that enables businesses to turn their data into fully customisable informative reports. It offers a plethora of automated reports made available on interactive dashboards that are quite easy to understand. Moreover, businesses can also depend on the same to import and visualise essential data from Google Analytics, Big Query, Spreadsheets, Google Ads and other databases of their choice. They can even monitor updated reports related to multiple projects within a single portal. Further, organisations can trust Google Data Studio with essential business process monitoring by analysing data generated from ad spend, search ranking, site traffic and more. It helps to transform data into impactful stories using engaging charts and graphs. The entire process makes it easy for users to understand the ROI of their business initiatives and spendings on digital advertising. Furthermore, the platform also boosts productivity levels across teams in real-time by providing them with accurate data that they need. Read more	Grafana is software that assists companies to monitor everything from Prometheus & Graphite metrics, logs, applications, beehives, power plants, sourdough starters, and custom data sources. It makes metric visualization tools that are more accessible and easy to use across the entire company. Grafana cloud plan collects, analyzes, and alerts users on Graphite and Prometheus metrics and Loki logs on highly available, high-performance, and fully managed Grafana Cloud platforms. Users can get visibility into all data sources and metrics across their teams without jumping through multiple tabs and tools. The platform enables users to get massive query performance and high efficiency for their Prometheus metrics at any scale. Users can also access Grafana Enterprise, which includes access to enterprise plugins that take users' existing data sources and allow them to drop them right into Grafana. This will enable users to get the best out of their complicated and expensive monitoring solutions and databases by visualizing all the data more easily and effectively. Read more
Pricing Options	Free Trial Not Available	Free Trial Not Available Starts at $49.0. Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.
SW Score & Breakdown		94% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more 94% Reviews 80% Momentum 63% Popularity 93%
SaaSworthy Awards	# 5 Highly Rated	# 5 Fastest Growing # 2 Most Popular

Features

Total Features	10 Features	8 Features
Common Features for All	Data Integration Helps in collecting and combining data from multiple data sources and offer them in a unified manner to the user Data Security Ensures secure storage of data by encryption Interactive Dashboard It provides easy visualization of data Key Performance Indicators Evaluating and measuring the performance of the business which will help you make informed decisions and correcting past mistakes OLAP It provides online analytics from multiple data and provides an easy view to the user. Predefined Templates It holds a bundle of built-in templates that can be used in the projects Private Dashboard Dashboards will remain private and will not share information with other users. Public Dashboard It allows sharing dashboards with multiple users Visual Analytics Provides analytical reasoning with interactive visual interface Widgets Displays often used functions and provides quick way for accessing files + 7 More - Show Less	Data Integration Helps in collecting and combining data from multiple data sources and offer them in a unified manner to the user Data Security Ensures secure storage of data by encryption Interactive Dashboard It provides easy visualization of data Key Performance Indicators Evaluating and measuring the performance of the business which will help you make informed decisions and correcting past mistakes OLAP It provides online analytics from multiple data and provides an easy view to the user. Predefined Templates It holds a bundle of built-in templates that can be used in the projects Private Dashboard Dashboards will remain private and will not share information with other users. Public Dashboard It allows sharing dashboards with multiple users Visual Analytics Provides analytical reasoning with interactive visual interface Widgets Displays often used functions and provides quick way for accessing files + 5 More - Show Less

Technical Details

Organization Types Supported	Individuals Freelancers Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business	Individuals Freelancers Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business
Platforms Supported	SaaS/Web/Cloud Installed - Windows Installed - Mac	SaaS/Web/Cloud Installed - Windows Installed - Mac
Modes of Support	Online	Online
API Support	Available	Available

Reviews & Ratings

User Rating	4.1/5 794 user ratings	4.7/5 72 user ratings
Rating Distribution	Excellent 33.2% Very Good 44.6% Average 17.5% Poor 4.3% Terrible 0.4%	Excellent 69.4% Very Good 29.2% Average 1.4% Poor 0% Terrible 0%
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Pricing

Pricing Options	Free Trial Not Available	Free Trial Not Available Starts at $49.0. Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.
Pricing Plans Monthly Plans Annual Plans		Free Free Grafana Cloud Pro $49.00 $49.00 per month Advanced Custom
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