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Grafana
Grafana Labs
Open Source
Free Tier
Cloud / SaaS
Self-Hosted
Open observability platform for metrics, logs & traces.
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New Relic
New Relic
Commercial
Free Tier
Cloud / SaaS
Full-stack observability with usage-based pricing.
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Specification comparison
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| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pricing |
Free
OSS + Grafana Cloud (free tier + paid)
|
Free
up to 100 GB/mo data ingest; paid from $0.30/GB after
|
| Free tier / OSS |
OSS
+ Cloud free plan
|
Yes
— generous free tier (100 GB/mo + 1 full user)
|
| License |
AGPLv3
(OSS)
|
Commercial
(SaaS)
|
| Testing type | Monitoring / APM | Monitoring / APM |
| Languages / SDKs | PromQL, LogQL, SQL, Flux | N/A (agent-based; agents in Java, Python, Node, .NET, Go, Ruby, PHP) |
| Supported platforms | Self-hosted, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes | SaaS; agents on all major OSes, Kubernetes, serverless |
| Parallel testing | N/A | N/A |
| Speed | N/A | N/A |
| Key integrations | Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, 150+ data sources | 500+ quickstarts including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry |
| Learning curve |
Easy
to moderate
|
Easy |
| Community / Support |
Very
large
|
Large
— New Relic Explorers Hub
|
| Maintained by | Grafana Labs | New Relic Inc. |
| First released | 2014 | 2008 |
| Latest version | See website | See website |
| Best suited for | Unified metrics/logs/traces dashboards | Teams wanting usage-based full-stack observability |
| Official site | grafana.com ↗ | newrelic.com ↗ |
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