Grafana Cloud Application Observability
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What both publish
| Fact | Grafana Cloud Application Observability | Seq |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Grafana Labs lists its headquarters as New York, New York, USA, and its founding year as 2014. | Datalust was founded in Australia in 2013 by Nicholas and Susan Blumhardt. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation covers setup, instrumentation, pricing, cost optimization, troubleshooting, APIs, SDKs, dashboards, integrations, and signal exploration. | The documentation covers ingestion, querying, dashboards, alerting, authentication, storage, backups, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, clustering, APIs and troubleshooting. |
| Founded | 2014 | 2013 |
| Integrations | Grafana Cloud connection tiles support Java, .NET, Beyla, Grafana Alloy, OTLP, and the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector. | Documented ingestion options include Serilog, Microsoft.Extensions.Logging, OpenTelemetry, Node.js libraries, HTTP, GELF, syslog, RabbitMQ, Docker and Kubernetes. |
| 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. | Seq is proprietary subscription software; its agreement grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable internal-use license and forbids copying, resale and source-code derivation. |
| Purpose | Grafana Cloud Application Observability provides out-of-the-box application monitoring and uses OpenTelemetry and Prometheus data to support root-cause analysis. | Seq is a self-hosted telemetry server that stores structured application events and makes them searchable through its web interface. |
Grafana Cloud Application Observability plans
- FreeFree
- Pro$0.03 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Seq plans
- IndividualFree
- Team$1,090 a year
- Standard$2,990 a year
- Datacenter$10,990 a year
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 Seq if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.