Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Grafana

The 20 closest observability software alternatives to Grafana, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Grafana? The closest matches are New Relic, GrowthBook and datadoghq.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Grafana

Grafana grafana.com

Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs

Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud, the AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data.

Wikidata: platform for data analytics and monitoring

Top 10K · #2,345 English 15 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Grafana

Summary by Claude

Grafana Labs offers Grafana Cloud, a hosted observability service for collecting, storing and visualizing metrics, logs, traces and profiles, built on its open-source Grafana dashboard software. It also offers incident response, synthetic monitoring and load testing tools.

Who it’s for
DevOps, SRE and software engineering teams
Business model
Freemium cloud subscriptions and enterprise licenses

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Grafana’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

InfuraSurveyMonkeyMediaMelonBetter StackMatomoElasticObsidiandatadoghq.comGrowthBookNew Relic

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Grafana

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Grafana, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    New Relic newrelic.com Top 1K English

    AI-powered Observability

    New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.

  2. 02
    GrowthBook growthbook.io Top 10K English

    GrowthBook | Experimentation, Feature Flags & Product Analytics Platform

    The 1st warehouse-native platform for experimentation, feature flags, and product analytics. Open source and fully transparent. Trusted by 3,000+ companies.

  3. 03
    datadoghq.com Top 1K English

    Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog

    See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.

  4. 04
    Obsidian obsidian.md Top 10K English

    Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

    The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

  5. 05
    Elastic elastic.co Top 10K English

    Elastic: The search database for AI | Search, AI agents, Observability, and Security | Elastic

    Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.

  6. 06
    Matomo matomo.org Top 10K English

    Privacy-first analytics you can trust - Analytics Platform - Matomo

    Popular analytics tools can miss up to 40% of traffic. Matomo delivers accurate, GDPR-compliant analytics with full data ownership in a platform teams can set up in minutes.

  7. 07
    Better Stack betterstackdata.com Top 10K English

    Better Stack - 30x cheaper than Datadog, Exceptional support

    AI SRE and MCP server, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, and error tracking. 7,000+ happy customers. 60-day money back guarantee.

  8. 08
    Splunk splunkcloud.com Top 10K English

    Splunk | Data Platform for Security, Observability & AI

    Unify security and observability at petabyte scale on the Splunk data platform for trusted AI. Stop threats and prevent downtime at machine speed.

  9. 09
    MediaMelon mediamelon.com Top 10K English

    MediaMelon | Real-time analytics for streaming video

    See every viewing session in real time, find the cause of playback and ad problems in your logs, and run it as a service or in your own cloud. Trusted by Warner Bros. Discovery.

  10. 10
    SurveyMonkey surveymonkey.com Top 1K English

    SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform

    Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.

  11. 11
    Snowflake snowflake.com Top 10K English

    Snowflake AI Data Cloud

    Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation.

  12. 12
    Plausible Analytics plausible.io Top 10K English

    Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

    Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.

  13. 13
    Samsara samsara.com Top 10K English

    Samsara | The Connected Operations Platform

    Samsara's connected operations platform helps 20,000+ operations improve safety, cut costs, and run smarter — built with operators.

  14. 14
    Databricks databricks.com Top 10K English

    Databricks: Leading Data and AI Platform for Enterprises

    Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.

  15. 15
    Infura infura.io Top 10K English

    Infura - Home | Web3 Development Platform | Blockchain Node Service

    Infura's development suite provides instant, scalable API access to Ethereum and other blockchain networks. Connect your app to Ethereum and other blockchain networks, for free!

  16. 16
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

  17. 17
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English

    AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean

    Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

  18. 18
    Cloud cloud.com Top 10K English

    Cloud Software Group home

    Cloud Software Group is a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure software solutions encompassing virtualization, integration, data management, automation, business intelligence, collaboration, networking and security.

  19. 19
    Rackspace Technology rackspace.com Top 10K English

    Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale

    As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.

  20. 20
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to grafana.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Grafana uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Grafana is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js header x-powered-by: Next.js
  • React implied by Next.js (header x-powered-by: Next.js)
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Hosting
  • Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
  • Vercel header x-vercel-id: cdg1::iad1::v6ckn-1793953578072-7820a407609a
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=FQZgAwd1GDttN2Decshl/k/JZgHcNLzX8e3oH4G…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=dea583bd-85d2-42eb-a9e2-2bd29cd8f329
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=cp6clnmUyUHPts3443s-P_H6_cQ9zZQod-48w…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ZOrn1ZOWBBsBBqSYrKhv51AInL2nQQUH_IC-R4_9tYk
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-5VifilREhtmqTprvcLOWGOeB
  • Salesforce TXT include:_spf.qualtrics.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all

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