Grafana Cloud Application Observability
8.9#2 in log management softwareFrom $0.03 a monthFree planAndroidiOSWebAPI
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Scout APM
6.9#9 in application performance & observability - enterprise softwareFrom $10 a monthFree planWebAPI
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| Fact | Grafana Cloud Application Observability | Scout APM |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Grafana Labs lists its headquarters as New York, New York, USA, and its founding year as 2014. | Scout Monitoring is the product of Zimuth, Inc. |
| Integrations | Grafana Cloud connection tiles support Java, .NET, Beyla, Grafana Alloy, OTLP, and the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector. | Listed integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub. |
| Purpose | Grafana Cloud Application Observability provides out-of-the-box application monitoring and uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to support root-cause analysis. | Scout provides application performance monitoring and observability tools to help engineering teams identify and fix performance problems. |
Grafana Cloud Application Observability plans
- FreeFree
- Pro$0.03 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Scout APM plans
- More Anomaly Detection$10 a month
- Startup$19 a month
- More Errors$19 a month
- Small$39 a month
- More Logs$40 a month
- Production Ready$64 a month
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 Scout APM if…
Scout suits engineering teams that need to trace transactions, investigate errors, and monitor application performance. Its language agents and AI-access tools may also suit teams working with those supported stacks or coding agents.