Grafana vs. Cyfe, by Traject

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.
$0
Cyfe
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Cyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.
$29
Monthly or Annually
Pricing
GrafanaCyfe, by Traject
Editions & Modules
Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
Custom Pricing
Solo
$29
Monthly or Annually
Pro
$49
Monthly or Annually
Premier
$89+
Monthly or Annually
Agency
$150
Monthly or Annually
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GrafanaCyfe
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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More Pricing Information
Features
GrafanaCyfe, by Traject
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.0
5 Ratings
5% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
6.9
27 Ratings
16% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.45 Ratings6.817 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings5.027 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.65 Ratings9.120 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.4
4 Ratings
8% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
8.5
25 Ratings
5% above category average
Drill-down analysis6.84 Ratings8.715 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.04 Ratings8.120 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.24 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.44 Ratings7.025 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.7
4 Ratings
3% above category average
Cyfe, by Traject
9.2
22 Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web7.84 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.04 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Report Versioning9.04 Ratings6.89 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.44 Ratings10.016 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.44 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.6
4 Ratings
7% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
8.9
18 Ratings
11% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.24 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.64 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.04 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
-
Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
8.6
21 Ratings
2% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings6.314 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
-
Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
9.3
19 Ratings
16% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.418 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
-
Ratings
Cyfe, by Traject
8.4
6 Ratings
7% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.83 Ratings
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User Ratings
GrafanaCyfe, by Traject
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(9 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GrafanaCyfe, by Traject
Likelihood to Recommend
Grafana Labs
If I was starting over on an Observability platform, Grafana would be my number 1 choice due to the flexibility and ability to act as a single platform either on its own or combining multiple data sources. The trick however, is that it can be fairly complex to learn and setup, so time is needed to make it a successful implementation. There is a level of cognitive load required
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Traject
Cyfe might be for you if you are looking for a cost-effective way to display all of your marketing metrics in one place. If you are looking for a detailed, fine-tuned, niche, or extremely specific metrics, this might not be the best solution. Cyfe is good for a general health check-up of marketing, but not a finely tuned examination.
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Pros
Grafana Labs
  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Traject
  • Has preset metric groups that pull similar stats together in one "bucket" saving you the time of setting up each stat-line one by one
  • Allows you to easily adjust the timeframe for what stats you want to see, so you can find YOY stats or just last month's stats rather quickly
  • Colored visualizations of stats make it easy to notice when campaigns are taking off
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Cons
Grafana Labs
  • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
  • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
  • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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Traject
  • I'd love to see additional functionality to customize colors. The light/dark option is very nice, but a little more flexibility in the colors would go a long way, especially if it was possible at the dashboard level rather than just the account level. Along the same lines, being able to customize the charts a little more, for example being able to show an x-axis on single data type graphs, could make them easier to read in some cases.
  • Being able to choose to report on converted clicks or conversions in AdWords would be helpful.
  • Needs the ability to show the date range on the shared URL dashboards. Would be even better if the date range was adjustable on that view, too.
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Likelihood to Renew
Grafana Labs
No answers on this topic
Traject
It has become a part of our internal tools so unless a competitor comes out with similar functionality as a similar price point it is unlikely that we would not renew. One area that would cause us not to renew would be if a competing service came out with more third-party integrations that match our needs. Price at this point is no longer an issue as it would allow us to automate a somewhat manual process that we have now connecting Cyfe widgets to Google Sheets.
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Usability
Grafana Labs
It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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Traject
I gave it a rating of 7 because it does a good job at what it does, but there are missing that are missing which I would have benefited from. For instance, if I was able to drill down more on the specific metrics I was able to see, that would have been helpful.
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Support Rating
Grafana Labs
No answers on this topic
Traject
Because I had a very minor question and I was able to speak directly to the founder through LinkedIn and through email. I know that as they grow this may not always be an option but the fact that he made himself available to answer my questions said a lot about his passion for the product.
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Implementation Rating
Grafana Labs
No answers on this topic
Traject
Cyfe is a 15 minutes implementation, then some time to get your data sources created. This is an easy one person job that will not result in down time or unnecessary wasted man hours.
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Alternatives Considered
Grafana Labs
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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Traject
The Salesforce dashboard is comparably flexible and intuitive, but designed more to its internal CRM focus. SumAll shares the social media dashboard capabilities, but lacks all others. Its interesting feature is side-by-side graph analysis for cross-channel performance. Cyfe might borrow from SumAll's default weekly email summary of performance from the dashboard, but implementation could be too complex. Nuvi dashboard is exclusively for social media marketing, but lacks Cyfe's flexibility for third party integration and window customization settings.
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Return on Investment
Grafana Labs
  • Time-consuming reports reduced
  • Spotting trends in services
  • Preventive maintenance
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Traject
  • Cyfe allows us to provide real time data to our clients
  • Cyfe allows us to provide detailed analytics to our clients showing actual results
  • Cyfe reduced our need to provide monthly "reports" to our marketing clients
  • Cyfe allows us to have better situational awareness and know what is going on throughout our multiple organizations
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