Comparisons anchored on Grafana, the AGPL dashboard and visualization platform from Grafana Labs: the free OSS build against Grafana Enterprise, and self-hosting against Grafana Cloud.
When the free AGPL Grafana build is enough and when a self-managed Grafana Enterprise license pays off: SAML and team sync, data source permissions, scheduled PDF reporting, auditing, Vault integration and the enterprise data source plugins for Splunk, ServiceNow, Datadog and Oracle.
Whether to run Grafana, and the metrics, logs and traces stores behind it, on your own infrastructure or on Grafana Labs' hosted Grafana Cloud: free tier caps and retention, Pro usage pricing, the 25,000 dollar Enterprise commit, and the bring-your-own-cloud option.
Assembling Grafana with Prometheus, Loki and a tracing backend against SigNoz's single OpenTelemetry-native application on ClickHouse: components to run, query languages, licensing and open-core limits, and which one a small platform team can operate.
Self-hosted distributed tracing compared: Grafana Tempo (AGPL-3.0) storing traces only in object storage with TraceQL, against CNCF graduated Jaeger (Apache-2.0) on Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Cassandra or ClickHouse, on cost, search and operations.
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