Cribl vs. Grafana Cloud Comparison


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About Cribl is an AI-powered telemetry data management platform that helps organizations collect, process, route, store, and analyze IT and security data across complex environments. The platform provides a unified approach to managing logs, metrics, traces, and events from cloud infrastructure, applications, networks, and endpoint devices. Cribl Stream enables teams to filter, transform, enrich, and route telemetry to different monitoring and security tools while reducing unnecessary data volumes and storage costs. Cribl Edge provides centralized collection and management of endpoint telemetry, while Cribl Lake offers scalable storage and replay capabilities for historical data. Cribl Search allows users to investigate telemetry across multiple storage systems without requiring data migration or reindexing. The platform also includes AI-assisted data processing, security investigations, automated schema mapping, and integrations with observability, SIEM, and cloud infrastructure platforms.		About Grafana Labs delivers the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the world’s most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms (3x) and furthest in Completeness of Vision (2025, 2026), Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations, from startups to the Fortune 500. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems. Powered by the LGTM stack—Grafana (visualization), Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs) & Tempo (traces)—it unifies telemetry in one platform for full-stack visibility across applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences. With the AI-powered Grafana Assistant and Adaptive Telemetry suite, teams detect and resolve issues faster, reduce wasteful telemetry spend, and gain real-time insights to ensure reliability. Native OTel support and 100s of integrations mean you can plug in existing tools & data sources.
Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported		Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience IT operations teams, security operations centers, cybersecurity analysts, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, observability specialists, data engineers, cloud architects, infrastructure administrators, managed security service providers, and enterprises seeking telemetry management, log processing, SIEM integration, data pipeline optimization, security analytics, and scalable observability infrastructure		Audience Engineering teams, SREs, developers, and platform architects who need scalable, AI-powered observability across modern applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native environments.
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported		API Offers API Supported
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported		Pricing $0 Forever Free Tier: All Grafana Cloud services, up to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, traces & profiles; 14-day retention; 3 active users Pro: from $19/month + usage Enterprise: from $25K/year Free Version Supported Free Trial Supported
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		Pros from Real Users Pros - Excellent support. - Love all the documentation that exists. makes it so much better than closed source products that we migrated away from. - We've had the best experience with both the people that got us stood up and the continued support. Our account manager is a complete rockstar. Chris Harbro is probably the most technical account manager I've dealt with and his tenacity for finding solutions to our issues is impressive. Our onboarding sales engineer Ian Bloom was like that as well. - AI features. This is what hooked us. AI is changing so quickly so who knows what this'll look like when someone reads this: I started using grafana MCP with grafana at first so when I started using the AI assistant in the cloud it was amazing, MCP alone is great but there's still a disconnect between the operator and the harness on what each other is looking at. with the AI assistant if works more more symbiotically. I will admit that now with claude chrome extension though it's pretty close. Grafana is a trusted tool for a reason, and as such I've used it every company I have worked for. The tool makes creating new dashboards a breeze. And with their new AI tool, you can update and create dashboards with confidence. When our network dashboard broke due to a plugin deprecating, the AI tool was able to recommend a new plugin, build the dashboard, and configure it based on SNMP logs it read from our central log store. It even recommended things to configure alerts on and added more metrics for us to track.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported		Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported
Company Information Cribl Founded: 2018 United States cribl.io		Company Information Grafana Labs Founded: 2014 United States grafana.com
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Cribl Stream Cribl		Dash0
Cribl Search Cribl View All		Datadog View All
Categories AI Observability Supported Log Analysis Supported Observability Supported Telemetry Supported		Categories AI Agent Observability Supported AI Observability Supported Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Supported Container Monitoring Supported Dashboard Supported Data Visualization Supported Database Monitoring Supported Incident Management Supported Incident Response Supported IT Alerting Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Supported Log Monitoring Supported Observability Supported Performance Testing Supported Reporting Supported Telemetry Supported
		Show More Features Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Supported Diagnostic Tools Supported Full Transaction Diagnostics Supported Performance Control Supported Resource Management Supported Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported Server Performance Supported Trace Individual Transactions Supported Dashboard Features Annotations Supported Data Source Integrations Supported Functions / Calculations Supported Interactive Supported KPIs Supported OLAP Supported Private Dashboards Supported Public Dashboards Supported Scorecards Supported Themes Supported Visual Analytics Supported Widgets Supported Data Visualization Features Analytics Supported Content Management Supported Dashboard Creation Supported Filtered Views Supported OLAP Supported Relational Display Supported Simulation Models Supported Visual Discovery Supported Database Monitoring Features Anomaly Detection Supported Autodiscovery Supported Capacity Planning Supported Dashboard Supported Dependency Tracking Not Supported Historical Trend Analysis Supported Multitenancy Supported Notifications / Alerts Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Permissions / Access Controls Supported Predictive Analytics Supported Prioritization Not Supported Query Analysis Supported Resource Optimization Supported Troubleshooting Supported IT Alerting Features Alert Noise Reduction Supported Alert Routing Supported Dynamic Notifications Supported Enriched Incident Context Supported Escalation Policies Supported Incident History Audit Supported Multi-User Alerting Supported Multiple Alert Types Supported On-Call Management Supported Rich HTML Email Notifications Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Supported Application Monitoring Supported Bandwidth Monitoring Supported Capacity Planning Supported Configuration Change Management Supported Data Movement Monitoring Supported Health Monitoring Supported Multi-Platform Support Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Point-in-Time Visibility Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Virtual Machine Monitoring Supported Incident Management Features Audit Trail Supported Corrective Actions (CAPA) Supported Disaster Recovery Supported Incident Reporting Supported IT Incident Management Supported OSHA Compliance Not Supported Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported Safety Management Not Supported Task Management Supported Ticket Management Supported Reporting Features Customizable Dashboard Supported Data Source Connectors Supported Drag & Drop Supported Drill Down Supported Email Reports Supported Financial Reports Not Supported Forecasting Supported Marketing Reports Not Supported OLAP Supported Report Export Supported Sales Reports Not Supported Scheduled / Automated Reports Supported
Integrations APERIO DataWise Not Supported Activu Not Supported Amazon Timestream Not Supported Clarify Not Supported Earthly Lunar Not Supported Element Not Supported MetricFire Not Supported OpsLevel Not Supported Ozone Not Supported Pandora FMS Not Supported Porter Not Supported Revolte Not Supported SiteWall by CellWall Not Supported Stackreaction Not Supported SwarmZero Not Supported Tetragon Not Supported The GlobalSolutions Not Supported YANTRA Connect Not Supported Zenduty Not Supported configure8 Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 6 Integrations		Integrations APERIO DataWise Supported Activu Supported Amazon Timestream Supported Clarify Supported Earthly Lunar Supported Element Supported MetricFire Supported OpsLevel Supported Ozone Supported Pandora FMS Supported Porter Supported Revolte Supported SiteWall by CellWall Supported Stackreaction Supported SwarmZero Supported Tetragon Supported The GlobalSolutions Supported YANTRA Connect Supported Zenduty Supported configure8 Supported Show More Integrations View All 204 Integrations
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