Grafana vs Prometheus
Pricing, compliance, integrations, and open source status — drawn from the latest verified data on infraplz.dev. Differences are highlighted so the winner on each row is scannable at a glance.
Grafana has an edge on SOC 2, GDPR, and a broader integration surface (8 unique). Prometheus matches or trails on all compared dimensions.
Open-source observability platform with ML-powered Sift investigations and an AI assistant that generates PromQL/LogQL queries from natural language. Adaptive Telemetry automatically drops high-cardinality data before indexing, cutting ingest costs. The open-core model lets you self-host Grafana OSS free or use managed Cloud tiers.
View full profileCNCF graduated time-series database and metrics scraper. Pull-based model, multi-dimensional data, PromQL, Alertmanager. The default monitoring backbone for Kubernetes. AI angle is downstream: exemplars, vector embeddings via plugins, and AI features in Grafana, Robusta, K8sGPT, and others built on top of Prometheus data.
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