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Grafana Cloud Application Observability vs KloudMate
Both stand on observability platforms. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+5
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.
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Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2
KloudMate brings a broad set of monitoring and incident-response tools together, with OpenTelemetry ingestion across plans. The Free tier has usage and retention limits; Pro starts at $99 a month, with overages billed separately.
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| Grafana Cloud Application Observability | KloudMate | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | Not published |
| Runs on | Android, API, Extension, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Web, Windows | Android, API, iPhone, Self-hosted, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | Pro: $0.03 per host a month | Pro: $99 a month |
| Plans published | 3 | 3 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | grafana.com | kloudmate.com |
| On observability platforms | #4 of 30 | #8 of 30 |
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.
KloudMate: what it does well
- Unifies logs, metrics, traces, and alerts
- OpenTelemetry ingestion on every plan
- Natural-language assistant for incident troubleshooting
- Free plan includes synthetic monitors
- Enterprise option runs in a customer's cloud account
What to know first
- Free plan has seven-day data retention
- Free plan limits monthly logs and traces to 10 GB each
- Pro overage usage is billed separately
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