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Dashboards are great ways to visualize different KPIs in a single place. Metrics from all over your system can be framed together and viewed on a single screen, helping to correlate them and reducing the overall effort of analysis. But when it comes to Grafana vs. SolarWinds, which one is better? It is often difficult to choose between their dashboarding capabilities. Both tools provide their own visualizations and help bring out interactive dashboards for users to use.

One of the first considerations for FinOps teams trying to lower their public cloud spend is investing in long-term savings vehicles available from their Cloud Service Provider. These programs can provide customers with upwards of 72% savings off on-demand prices, in return for a 1-to-3-year usage commitment, so it’s pretty common that we see them in use by our customers.

In part I of this blog series, we understood that monitoring a Kubernetes cluster is a challenge that we can overcome if we use the right tools. We also understood that the default Kubernetes dashboard allows us to monitor the different resources running inside our cluster, but it is very basic. We suggested some tools and platforms like cAdvisor, Kube-state-metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubewatch, Jaeger, and MetricFire.