Grafana Alternatives

Grafana is described as 'Provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world' and is a very popular business intelligence tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Grafana for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, SaaS, Self-Hosted, Linux and Mac apps. The best Grafana alternative is Better Stack Telemetry. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Netdata or Kibana. Other great apps like Grafana are Datadog, Metabase, Tableau and Beszel.

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  1. Better Stack Telemetry icon

    Better Stack Telemetry

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    Transform your stack's logs into structured data with real-time processing of up to 1 billion logs per second. Enjoy fast search with SQL support, customizable retention, alerts for anomalies, and collaborative dashboards to streamline debugging and incident resolution.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Almost everyone thinks Better Stack Telemetry is a great Grafana alternative.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is the most popular SaaS alternative to Grafana.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is the most popular commercial alternative to Grafana.

    • Better Stack Telemetry is Paid and ProprietaryGrafana is Freemium and Open Source
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    Netdata

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    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    48 Netdata alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
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    Comments about Netdata as an Alternative to Grafana
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    Netdata is a single-purpose monitoring tool. Grafana is a universal data visualization tool.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Ease of use, good alert defaults, good community.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Netdata is a great Grafana alternative, some don't.

    • Netdata is the most popular Web-based, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Grafana.

    • Netdata is the most popular free alternative to Grafana.

    • Netdata is Freemium and ProprietaryGrafana is Freemium and Open Source
    • Netdata is LightweightGrafana is not according to our users
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    Kibana

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    Easily visualize data pushed into Elasticsearch from Logstash, es-hadoop or 3rd party technologies like Apache Flume, Fluentd, and many others.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • Almost everyone thinks Kibana is a great Grafana alternative.

    • Kibana is the most popular Windows alternative to Grafana.

    • Kibana is the most popular Open Source alternative to Grafana.

    • Kibana is Freemium and Open SourceGrafana is also Freemium and Open Source
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    Datadog

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    Monitor and visualize your IT and DevOps environments seamlessly with over 120 integrations, enabling real-time insight across on-premise and cloud deployments. Utilize robust analytics, graphing, and correlation tools for error logging and network monitoring. Improve collaboration and proactive IT management.

    229 Datadog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Metabase

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    Metabase is a simple and powerful analytics tool which lets anyone learn and make decisions from their company’s data. No technical knowledge required! We hope you love it.

    54 Metabase alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Heroku
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
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  8. Tableau icon

    Tableau

     63 likes
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    Tableau helps the world’s largest organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.

    229 Tableau alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Beszel

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    Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.

    10 Beszel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
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    HyperDX

     19 likes
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    An open source observability platform: Unify session replays, logs, traces, and errors – all without the Datadog price tag.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    OpenSearch

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    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    37 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    DeepFlow

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    Unify your cloud-native monitoring with zero-code eBPF, advanced profiling, and 10x storage efficiency.

    61 DeepFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    KSysGuard

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    KSysGuard, also known as KDE System Guard and KDE System Monitor, is designed to make simple process control available to a user without needing to do any special setup - the defaults are usually perfectly adequate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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    They aren't even built for the same reason. Completely unrelated

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • KSysGuard is Free and Open SourceGrafana is Freemium and Open Source
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