Grafana Cloud vs. Prometheus Comparison


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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.		About Power your metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution. Prometheus fundamentally stores all data as time series: streams of timestamped values belonging to the same metric and the same set of labeled dimensions. Besides stored time series, Prometheus may generate temporary derived time series as the result of queries. Prometheus provides a functional query language called PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) that lets the user select and aggregate time series data in real time. The result of an expression can either be shown as a graph, viewed as tabular data in Prometheus's expression browser, or consumed by external systems via the HTTP API. Prometheus is configured via command-line flags and a configuration file. While the command-line flags configure immutable system parameters (such as storage locations, amount of data to keep on disk and in memory, etc.).
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		Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Engineering teams, SREs, developers, and platform architects who need scalable, AI-powered observability across modern applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native environments.		Audience Organizations that want to power their metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported		API Offers API Not Supported
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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		Pricing Free Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Pros from Real Users Pros 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 Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Grafana Labs Founded: 2014 United States grafana.com		Company Information Prometheus Founded: 2012 prometheus.io
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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		Categories Container Monitoring Supported Database Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Supported Network Monitoring Supported Observability Supported Server Monitoring Supported Telemetry Supported Time Series Databases 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 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 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 AlertOps Supported BentoML Supported Hosted Graphite Supported IBM Instana Supported InfluxDB Supported KrakenD Supported M3 Supported MetricFire Supported Observo AI Supported OpenLIT Supported OpsWorker Supported OrbOps AI Supported Perfana Supported Selector Analytics Supported Tetragon Supported Tiger Data Supported Traefik Mesh Supported Worldr Supported Zenduty Supported gopaddle Supported Show More Integrations View All 202 Integrations		Integrations AlertOps Supported BentoML Supported Hosted Graphite Supported IBM Instana Supported InfluxDB Supported KrakenD Supported M3 Supported MetricFire Supported Observo AI Supported OpenLIT Supported OpsWorker Supported OrbOps AI Supported Perfana Supported Selector Analytics Supported Tetragon Supported Tiger Data Supported Traefik Mesh Supported Worldr Supported Zenduty Supported gopaddle Supported Show More Integrations View All 223 Integrations
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