What Grafana does
Grafana is an observability platform that visualizes metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from connected data sources. Its hosted offering, Grafana Cloud, connects existing tools through hundreds of plugins and integrations built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. Features named on the site include dashboards and data visualization, AI investigations for root cause analysis, Adaptive Telemetry for reducing data costs, synthetic monitoring, k6 load testing, and incident response management. The site describes a free forever plan and paid plans for larger scale, but does not list prices. Open-source projects are linked from a separate section.
How Grafana compares with its closest alternatives
2 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Grafana does. Among the 2 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Dash0 at $10 a month and the median is $14.50. All 5 offer an API, as Grafana does. Grafana offers a web app and a desktop app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and none offers a desktop app. Grafana was founded in 2014; the alternatives were founded between 2017 and 2024. Grafana is based in New York, United States; 2 of the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too, and the others in Ireland.