Open-source Dashboarding Tools. Which One Suits You?
summary
Compares Grafana and OpenSearch Dashboards by concrete tradeoffs: OpenSearch is Apache 2.0 only, visualizes data stored in OpenSearch, offers a security plugin with role‑based and field‑level controls and index‑per‑tenant multi‑tenancy, and ships monitors with anomaly detection (Random Cut Forest) but lacks streaming and native drill‑down and shows alerts only in a separate monitoring page. Grafana uses AGPL v3 + Enterprise options, supports many backends via plugins, has streaming and drill-down support, grouping/silencing alerts, and backend plugin gRPC extensibility.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00🚀 Build Stuff Conference – Get Your Tickets!
- 0:28Introduction to Open-Source Dashboarding Tools
- 3:17Grafana vs OpenSearch Dashboards: Licensing & Data Storage
- 10:49Deep Dive into Security Features of Both Tools
- 15:18Extendability and Custom Plugin Support
- 20:23Alerting and Notification Systems in Grafana & OpenSearch Dashboards
- 25:45Navigation and User Experience: Grafana vs OpenSearch Dashboards
- 32:58Summary: Which Tool Suits Your Needs Best?
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