We just moved to grafana from New Relic and it makes me angry just to try and look at monitoring, we have lost so much utility. And the company spent a year on the transition and a shit ton of work, so it’s not (just) that we had good workflows set up that haven’t come across. (I am also a heavy exploratory user)
If you were heavy users of APM, then that's going to be a step backwards, I'm sure - but Grafana's just a visualisation tool, so I'm not sure what actual stack you're comparing there.
I find NewRelic's UI to be more frustrating, but I've spent a lot more time with Grafana's (while very much not a fan of their relentless tinkering with UI layout).
Would love to learn what kind of exploration workflows you've missed in Grafana?
Context: Founder building an affordable alternative in the SaaS observability market (hyperdx.io) - I assume your company might have moved when NR introduced new seat-based pricing?
