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dynatrace vs Grafana
Plans read from both vendors' own pricing pages, with the same seats and billing applied to each. Grafana is a verified alternative to dynatrace: it does the same main job for a similar customer.
Dynatrace is a unified platform offering observability, AI, automation, and application security to help businesses innovate faster and operate more efficiently. It provides end-to-end monitoring and analytics for applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences with AI-powered insights and automation.
- Starting price
- Price not published
- Price clarity
- Not graded
- Category
- Developer tools
- Platforms
- Cloud-based platform with global data center footprint and data residency options.
- Good fit for
- Enterprises seeking AI-powered observability and automation to improve software delivery and security.
- Limitations
- Pricing requires an annual commitment at the platform level, not per capability or per month.
Grafana Cloud is an AI-powered observability platform built on open standards that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data. It supports full-stack observability and integrates with existing tools without requiring rip-and-replace, offering features like AI assistant, adaptive telemetry for cost optimization, and incident response management.
- Starting price
- From $19/mo, free plan available
- Price clarity
- Price clarity grade C, 65 out of 100 65 of 100
- Category
- Developer tools
- Platforms
- Not confirmed
- Good fit for
- Personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups. Companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements needing premium support and custom retention
- Limitations
- Free tier has limited usage and 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and performance tests. Enterprise plan requires a minimum spend commitment of $25,000 per year
What each one costs your team
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FreeCheapest fit Flat subscription | $0 | $0 | Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
Pro Flat subscription | $19 | $228 |
Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Published as a starting price. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
Enterprise Flat subscription | $2,083.33 | $25,000 |
Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Published as a starting price. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
dynatrace
Best fit
Enterprises seeking AI-powered observability and automation to improve software delivery and security.
Trade-offs
Pricing requires an annual commitment at the platform level, not per capability or per month.
Integrations / export
Not confirmed
Grafana
Best fit
Personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups; Companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements needing premium support and custom retention
Trade-offs
Free tier has limited usage and 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and performance tests; Enterprise plan requires a minimum spend commitment of $25,000 per year
Integrations / export
Not confirmed
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