• Users appreciate Grafana's rich features but criticize its complexity and brittleness.
• Tools like Prometheus and Grafana are seen as over-engineered, especially with components like Mimir requiring dedicated infrastructure.
• Concerns exist about the future of self-hosted Grafana due to frequent breaking changes.
• Some suggest simpler, stable alternatives for monitoring such as Prometheus alone, Zabbix, VictoriaMetrics, or newer tools like SigNoz, OpenObserve, and Perses.
• The community desires a stable, reliable "boring" monitoring stack rather than constant feature churn.

Overall, there is notable dissatisfaction with Grafana’s direction and operational demands, particularly among smaller teams or startups seeking sustainable solutions.