Grafana Cloud vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring 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 The only real-time, analytics-driven multicloud monitoring solution for all environments (formerly SignalFx). Monitor any environment on a massively scalable streaming architecture. Open, flexible data collection and rapid visualizations of services in seconds. Purpose built for ephemeral and dynamic cloud-native environments at any scale (e.g., Kubernetes, container, serverless). Detect, visualize and resolve issues as soon as they arise. Monitor infrastructure performance in real-time at cloud scale through predictive streaming analytics. Over 200 pre-built integrations for cloud services and out-of-the-box dashboards for rapid visualization of your entire stack. Autodiscover, breakdown, group, and explore clouds, services and systems. Quickly and easily understand how your infrastructure behaves across different services, availability zones, Kubernetes clusters and more.
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 Not 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
Audience Engineering teams, SREs, developers, and platform architects who need scalable, AI-powered observability across modern applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native environments.		Audience IT teams
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 No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.5 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 4.5 / 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 - 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 Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Grafana Labs Founded: 2014 United States grafana.com		Company Information Cisco Founded: 1984 United States www.splunk.com/en_us/software/infrastructure-monitoring.html
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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 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Supported Cloud Monitoring Supported Container Monitoring Supported Hardware Monitoring Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Supported Log Analysis Supported Log Monitoring Supported Observability Supported Server Monitoring Supported
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 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 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		Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Not Supported Diagnostic Tools Not Supported Full Transaction Diagnostics Not Supported Performance Control Supported Resource Management Not Supported Root-Cause Diagnosis Not Supported Server Performance Not Supported Trace Individual Transactions Not Supported IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features Alerts / Notifications Supported Application Monitoring Supported Bandwidth Monitoring Not Supported Capacity Planning Not Supported Configuration Change Management Supported Data Movement Monitoring Supported Health Monitoring Not Supported Multi-Platform Support Not Supported Performance Monitoring Supported Point-in-Time Visibility Not Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Virtual Machine Monitoring Not Supported
Integrations InsightFinder Supported Squadcast Supported Wyebot Supported Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Not Supported Aporia Supported Aspecto Supported C1Risk Not Supported Chkk Supported Doctor Droid Supported Hosted Graphite Supported Icinga Supported IsDown Supported Kapacitor Supported Nango Supported Opster Supported PFLB Supported QuestDB Supported Rootly Supported SwarmZero Supported Workers by Delos Supported Show More Integrations View All 204 Integrations		Integrations InsightFinder Supported Squadcast Supported Wyebot Supported Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Supported Aporia Not Supported Aspecto Not Supported C1Risk Supported Chkk Not Supported Doctor Droid Not Supported Hosted Graphite Not Supported Icinga Not Supported IsDown Not Supported Kapacitor Not Supported Nango Not Supported Opster Not Supported PFLB Not Supported QuestDB Not Supported Rootly Not Supported SwarmZero Not Supported Workers by Delos Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 21 Integrations
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