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Grafana Cloud Application Observability vs Keymetrics
Both stand on application performance monitoring. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Grafana Cloud Application Observability brings several telemetry types and service-level views together for application investigation. Review the included host hours and billing basis, especially for serverless environments, before choosing a plan.
Visit Grafana Cloud Application ObservabilityChoose Keymetrics for Node.js infrastructure monitoring built around PM2, especially if issue investigation, custom metrics, or Enterprise profiling match your needs. Processes above a Plus plan limit are ignored; contact the maker for Enterprise pricing details.
Visit KeymetricsThe facts
| Grafana Cloud Application Observability | Keymetrics | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | Not published |
| Runs on | Android, API, Extension, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Web, Windows | API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | Pro: $0.03 per host a month | Plus: $79 a month |
| Plans published | 3 | 3 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | grafana.com | pm2.io |
| On application performance monitoring | #7 of 37 | #11 of 37 |
Grafana Cloud Application Observability: what it does well
- Automatically discovers services and relationships.
- Service catalog displays latency, errors, and request rate.
- Unifies metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.
- Free plan includes up to 2,232 host hours monthly.
What to know first
- Free plan includes community support.
- Paid usage charges for host hours and telemetry.
- Serverless billing is based on ingested telemetry.
Keymetrics: what it does well
- Combines application and database views in real time and history.
- Issue dashboard includes stack traces, code lines, and preceding logs.
- Notifications can go by email, Slack, or webhook.
- Custom metrics include values, counters, meters, and histograms.
- Enterprise profiling can run in production.
What to know first
- Plus process limits apply across monitored processes on linked servers.
- Processes above a Plus plan limit are automatically ignored.
- Enterprise pricing details are available by contacting the maker.
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