Grafana Cloud Application Observability
8.9#2 in log management softwareFrom $0.03 a monthFree planAndroidiOSWebAPI
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What both publish
| Fact | Grafana Cloud Application Observability | HyperDX |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Grafana Labs lists its headquarters as New York, New York, USA, and its founding year as 2014. | HyperDX announced that it joined ClickHouse and said HyperDX Cloud would continue serving and onboarding new customers. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | Grafana Cloud connection tiles support Java, .NET, Beyla, Grafana Alloy, OTLP, and the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector. | Documented ingestion options include OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Syslog, AWS services, Cloudflare Workers, Docker, Fly.io, Heroku, Kubernetes and Vercel. |
| License | The Grafana open-source project is distributed under AGPL-3.0-only, with listed Apache-2.0 exceptions; Grafana Cloud itself is a managed service. | The public repository identifies the project as MIT licensed. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.5 out of 5 from 209 reviews | 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review |
Grafana Cloud Application Observability plans
- FreeFree
- Pro$0.03 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
HyperDX plans
- FreeFree
- Starter$20 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pick Grafana Cloud Application Observability if…
It suits software engineers who need to detect anomalies, investigate causes, and address application problems. Teams using OpenTelemetry or Prometheus can use its listed compatibility and Alloy pipelines.
Pick HyperDX if…
HyperDX may suit engineering teams diagnosing production issues across logs, metrics, traces, and user sessions. Its cloud and self-hosted options offer different deployment paths for teams.