🆚 Azure Monitor vs. Grafana

📈 Azure Monitor is much more popular than Grafana.
🌍 Azure Monitor is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Grafana is particularly popular in the United States.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Type

Application monitoring tool

Web analytics tool

About

Azure Monitor is a solution that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from various resources, including Windows Servers and VMs.

It includes an Azure Application Insights extensible APM service built to help developers and DevOps teams monitor live web and cloud applications.

Grafana is an open and composable observability and data visualization platform designed to visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources.

It provides interactive dashboards, alerting, and correlation across telemetry data, supports more than 100 data sources including Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and OpenTelemetry, and uses a plugin-based architecture for extending visualizations, integrations, and applications.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

New York, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

grafana.com #6,336

Pricing

Free tier ✔️ First 5 GB of analytics logs with 30-31 days of retention + platform metrics ingestion + 1M metric queries per month

Ingested logs Auxiliary $0.10/GB
Basic $0.50/GB
Analytics $2.30/GB

Querying Basic or Auxiliary Logs $0.005 per GB of data scanned

Custom metrics ingestion $0.16/10M samples ingested

Platform and custom metric queries beyond the free 1M $0.01/1K API calls

Free version ✔️ Open source

Grafana Cloud Free version ✔️ 10k active series per month, 14 days retention
Pro $19+/month
Enterprise $25,000+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Azure Monitor application monitoring tool is 54 times more popular than Grafana.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure Monitor is more popular than Grafana in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Sweden

Netherlands

Australia

Norway

Canada

Denmark

Germany

New Zealand

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Application Monitoring category.

⬆️ 27th most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
⬆️ 118th most popular in the United States in the Analytics category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure Monitor is more popular than Grafana in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Public Information

Health

Online Shopping

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Travel

Government/Military

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#57

#369

#397

Name

Rank

#996

#2,012

#2,390

#2,844

#2,908