Best Grafana Alternatives
The top-ranked Grafana alternative is Kibana (Freemium). The best free option is Prometheus (open source).
Grafana is a leading observability and dashboarding platform, but teams seek alternatives for simpler setup, all-in-one monitoring, pricing, or different data source support. Some want built-in storage or hosted solutions.
1Kibana
FreemiumVisualization and dashboarding layer for the Elastic Stack, ideal for log analytics.
2A cloud monitoring platform covering infrastructure, APM, logs, and error tracking.
3An open-source monitoring system and time-series database for metrics.
An observability platform for application performance, errors, and infrastructure.
Zabbix
Open SourceOpen-source enterprise monitoring for networks, servers, and services.
Metabase
FreemiumOpen-source business intelligence tool for querying and visualizing databases.
Chronograf
Open SourceInfluxData's dashboarding and admin interface for InfluxDB time-series data.
Netdata
FreemiumReal-time performance monitoring with per-second metrics and dashboards.
Splunk
SubscriptionA platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine data and logs.
Apache Superset
Open SourceOpen-source data exploration and visualization platform for modern databases.
Dynatrace
SubscriptionAn AI-powered observability platform for full-stack monitoring.
Redash
Open SourceOpen-source tool to query data sources and build dashboards and visualizations.
Grafana alternatives: FAQ
What is the best alternative to Grafana?
Kibana is ranked first on this list (Freemium). The ranking combines our base score with readers' votes, so it can change.
What is the best free alternative to Grafana?
The highest-ranked free or open-source options here are Prometheus, Zabbix and Chronograf.
Which Grafana alternatives work on Mac?
Chronograf and Netdata run on macOS.
Which Grafana alternatives work on Linux?
Prometheus, Zabbix, Metabase and Chronograf run on Linux.
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