Prometheus vs. Grafana
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Product |  Prometheus |  Grafana |
|---|---|---|
| Tagline | Monitoring system and time series database. | The open and composable observability platform. |
| Description | Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects metrics via a pull model and stores them in a time-series database. | Grafana is the open observability platform for dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces — compose data from anywhere into one operational view. |
| Category | Monitoring Observability | — |
| Pricing | Free (open source) Prometheus is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) CNCF project with no paid tier or license fee. Costs, if any, come only from self-hosting in… | From $19 / mo |
| Deal | No active deal | No active deal |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
| Headcount | 1-10 employees | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| HQ | Remote (CNCF) | New York, New York |
| Featured clients | SoundCloud, DigitalOcean, CoreOS | — |