Datadog vs Grafana

Is Grafana a good alternative to Datadog? Here’s what you need to know.

Grafana

Free

Open-source observability and data visualization platform.

Grafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Create beautiful dashboards from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and 100+ data sources. Alerting and annotation included.

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Why switch from Datadog?

Indie pricing — no enterprise markup or per-seat fees
Direct maker support — talk to the person who built it
Transparent & open — many indie tools are open-source
No vendor lock-in — own your data, export anytime

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