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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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Datadog
Datadog
Commercial
Cloud / SaaS
Enterprise
Unified monitoring & security for cloud apps.
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Specification comparison
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| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pricing |
Free
OSS + Grafana Cloud (free tier + paid)
|
From
$15/host/mo, modular add-ons
|
| Free tier / OSS |
OSS
+ Cloud free plan
|
14-day
trial, limited free plan
|
| License |
AGPLv3
(OSS)
|
Commercial
(SaaS)
|
| Testing type | Monitoring / APM | Monitoring / APM |
| Languages / SDKs | PromQL, LogQL, SQL, Flux | N/A (agent-based) |
| Supported platforms | Self-hosted, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes | SaaS, agent runs on all major OSes/k8s |
| Parallel testing | N/A | N/A |
| Speed | N/A | N/A |
| Key integrations | Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, 150+ data sources | 700+ vendor integrations |
| Learning curve |
Easy
to moderate
|
Easy |
| Community / Support |
Very
large
|
Large
enterprise user base
|
| Maintained by | Grafana Labs | Datadog Inc. |
| First released | 2014 | 2010 |
| Latest version | See website | See website |
| Best suited for | Unified metrics/logs/traces dashboards | Enterprises wanting a single observability vendor |
| Official site | grafana.com ↗ | www.datadoghq.com ↗ |
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