Grafana vs. SolarWinds Observability
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Grafana | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard. | $0 |
 SolarWinds Observability | N/A | N/A | SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component… | $60 per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*) |
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| Additional Details | — | *Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales). | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | - |
| Usability | 10.0 | - |