Side by side
Mackerel vs MetricFire
Both stand on cloud monitoring. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free plan LinuxWebWindows
Visit Mackerel Free trial APIWeb
MetricFire offers managed Graphite and Grafana with multiple metric-ingest methods, integrations and alerting. Plans differ by metric allowance and retention, and a 14-day trial is available without a free plan.
Visit MetricFireThe facts
| Mackerel | MetricFire | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | A free trial |
| Open source | Not published | Not published |
| Runs on | Linux, Web, Windows | API, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | Not published | Intro: $16 a month |
| Plans published | None | 4 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | en.mackerel.io | metricfire.com |
| On cloud monitoring | #21 of 31 | #25 of 31 |
Mackerel: what it does well
MetricFire: what it does well
- Accepts custom metrics without an agent or SDK.
- Built-in Graphite alerting connects to Slack and PagerDuty.
- All plans include email and live chat support.
- Customers retain ownership of their data and can export it.
- Stored data has three redundant copies.
What to know first
- There is no free plan.
- Intro is limited to 500 metrics and 10 alerts.
- Exceeding the metric limit consistently can lead to dropped data points.
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