The Grafana Stack can be an incredible powerful monitoring solution, but through my experience I found out how maintenance intensive it is and how uncertain the…

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An experienced engineer shares their journey with Grafana's observability stack, detailing how frequent architectural changes, deprecations, and increasing complexity have eroded trust. Starting with simple Loki/Prometheus setups, they've witnessed rapid product churn—Grafana Agent deprecated within 2-3 years, OnCall discontinued, and Mimir 3.0 now requiring Kafka. The constant restructuring, incompatibilities with Prometheus Operator standards, and career-driven development pace make it difficult to maintain stable monitoring infrastructure. While acknowledging the technical quality of Grafana products, the author questions their long-term viability and considers alternatives like the kube-prometheus-stack with Thanos.

The Grafana trust problem

Bummer, that topic totally piqued my interest, but Cloudflare is playing hard to get. Dammit!

Got same pov especially about grafana alloy i mean like “why make things get too complicated when all we need is only know wether my disk is beyond my threshold or not?”

Yeah at my company we use otel for everything. Because of that I do not really care about the backend.
We choose Datadog as the backend because it looked more user friendly than Grafana.