Grafana

Teams attempting to migrate away from Datadog to open-source alternatives like Prometheus face fragmentation and operational complexity. Prometheus requires stitching together Grafana, node exporters, and alert managers, shifting focus from monitoring apps to maintaining the observability stack itself, while also losing observability visibility during transition.

Integrating Nginx with monitoring systems like Prometheus and Grafana requires additional setup for configuring metrics, exporters, and ensuring proper data collection. This adds operational complexity in microservices environments requiring comprehensive observability.

Custom dashboards feature has limited customization options, inflexible layout system, and cannot be shared with non-Sentry users without screenshots. Notably lags behind competitors like Datadog and Grafana in capability and polish.