Grafana and Prometheus are both listed under Observability in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.
It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.
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| Pricing model | Freemium | Open Source |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| GitHub stars | 76.3K | 65.7K |
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Open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform
Grafana is the open-source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.
Full Grafana listingOpen-source monitoring system with time series database
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. It collects and stores metrics as time series data, providing a multidimensional data model, flexible query language, and efficient storage.
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