Grafana Cloud vs. StackState 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 StackState's Topology and Relationship-Based Observability platform lets you manage your dynamic IT environment more effectively by unifying performance data from your existing monitoring tools into a single topology. Enabling you to: 1. 80% Decreased MTTR: by identifying the root cause and alerting the right teams with the correct information. 2. 65% Fewer Outages: through real-time unified observability and more planful planning. 3. 3x Faster Releases: by giving time back to developers to increase implementations. Get started today with our free guided demo: https://www.stackstate.com/schedule-a-demo
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 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 Global businesses
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported		API Offers API 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 Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported
Company Information Grafana Labs Founded: 2014 United States grafana.com		Company Information StackState Founded: 2015 United States www.stackstate.com
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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 AIOps Supported Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Supported Cloud Monitoring Supported Container Monitoring Supported Incident Management Supported IT Management Supported Observability 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 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 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 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 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		Incident Management Features Audit Trail Not Supported Corrective Actions (CAPA) Supported Disaster Recovery Supported Incident Reporting Supported IT Incident Management Not Supported OSHA Compliance Not Supported Root-Cause Diagnosis Supported Safety Management Not Supported Task Management Not Supported Ticket Management Not Supported Show More Features IT Management Features Capacity Monitoring Supported Compliance Management Not Supported Event Logs Supported Hardware Inventory Supported IT Budgeting Not Supported License Management Not Supported Patch Management Not Supported Remote Access Not Supported Scheduling Not Supported Software Inventory Not Supported User Activity Monitoring Not Supported
Integrations Altinity Supported Amazon Redshift Not Supported Aspecto Supported Cloud Ops Group Supported Deep.BI Supported Earthly Lunar Supported FriendliAI Supported GigaSpaces Supported HPE OneView Supported I&B monitoring Supported IBM Instana Supported MooseFS Supported NVIDIA Cloud Functions Supported Netdata Supported Opsera Supported Oracle Big Data Discovery Supported PFLB Supported Roomote Supported RunReveal Supported Tracetest Supported Show More Integrations View All 204 Integrations		Integrations Altinity Not Supported Amazon Redshift Supported Aspecto Not Supported Cloud Ops Group Not Supported Deep.BI Not Supported Earthly Lunar Not Supported FriendliAI Not Supported GigaSpaces Not Supported HPE OneView Not Supported I&B monitoring Not Supported IBM Instana Not Supported MooseFS Not Supported NVIDIA Cloud Functions Not Supported Netdata Not Supported Opsera Not Supported Oracle Big Data Discovery Not Supported PFLB Not Supported Roomote Not Supported RunReveal Not Supported Tracetest Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 35 Integrations
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