Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus vs Grafana Cloud Application Observability

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

6.0 #27 in Metrics Monitoring Tools

8.2 #14 in Log Management Software

	Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus	Grafana Cloud Application Observability
Free plan	No	Yes
Free trial	Yes
Paid from	$0.50/mo	$0.03/mo
Platforms	api, Linux, self-hosted, Web	Linux, macOS, Web, Windows
Free plan	No	Yes
Data retention	730 days
Custom metrics	Yes
Query language	promql
Data ingestion	multiple
Self-hosted option	Yes
SLO tracking	Yes
Alert deduplication		Yes
Routing rules		Yes
Alert enrichment		Yes
Suppression rules		Yes
Distributed tracing		Yes
Transaction tracing		Yes
Dependency mapping		Yes
Real user monitoring		Yes
Log correlation		Yes
Deployment model		cloud