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Moving from another tool · built on OpenTelemetryOwlpane vs. Grafana Cloud: one product, one meter.
Grafana Cloud is a strong, open ecosystem with a generous free tier. Owlpane is a single product where traces, logs, metrics and Kubernetes link to each other, priced by GB ingested. Here is where each one wins.
Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Grafana as your dashboard tool: it can read Owlpane metrics through a Prometheus-compatible endpoint, and Prometheus remote write goes to both.
Gain
Signals that link to each other without stitching data sources, and one meter (GB ingested) instead of separate rates for series, logs and traces.
Give up
Ecosystem. Grafana has a huge library of community dashboards, plugins and data sources, and full PromQL and LogQL engines. Ours is narrower.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
How it works
Three steps
Remote write
Add Owlpane as a Prometheus remote-write target.
Send traces and logs
Add the OTLP exporter to your Collector.
Keep Grafana
Point a Grafana data source at the read endpoint while you compare.
Side by side
What each one charges for
| Grafana Cloud (Pro, public rates) | Owlpane | |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics | $6.50 per 1,000 billable active series | Counted in GB ingested |
| Logs and traces | $0.40 per GB written, plus $0.05 per GB processing and $0.10 per GB retention | Counted in GB ingested |
| Platform fee | $19 per month, including 50 GB ingested | Team is $29 per month including 50 GB, then $0.35 per GB |
| Free tier | 10,000 metric series and 50 GB of logs, 14-day retention | 10 GB a month, sampled above and stopped at 20 GB |
| What you forecast | Active series, plus GB per signal | GB ingested |
Grafana figures come from public pricing summaries in September 2026 and may be out of date; confirm on grafana.com/pricing. The free tiers differ in shape, so compare on your own volumes, not on the headline number. Grafana Cloud pricing · Estimate Owlpane with the cost calculator
Questions
Is there a LogQL or full PromQL engine?
Where Owlpane is narrower
- No library of community dashboards.
- No LogQL clone or log-to-metric rules yet.
- Fewer data sources than Grafana.
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026 and our own product today, and may change. Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dash0, Better Stack, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS, Sentry, Dynatrace, Kubeshark, Checkly, PagerDuty, SigNoz, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; Owlpane is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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