Telemetry coverage
Grafana stack
Loki indexes labels, not full log line content; Tempo and Mimir are strong but you wire correlation yourself.
Owlpane
Traces, logs and metrics in one product with a log line linked to the request that wrote it.
Owlpane / Solutions / vs. Grafana stack
Moving from another tool · built on OpenTelemetryComing from Grafana, Loki and Tempo? One product instead of four to run.
Prometheus remote write works today, and Grafana can read Owlpane metrics through a Prometheus-compatible endpoint, so you can move one piece at a time.
Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Prometheus remote write works today, and Grafana can read Owlpane metrics through a Prometheus-compatible endpoint.
Gain
One managed product instead of four to operate, with logs, traces and metrics that link to each other.
Give up
Ecosystem. PromQL support is a read endpoint, not full parity, and there is no library of community dashboards.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
Prometheus-compatibleDashboards
Search everythingLogs
Metrics explorerDashboards
How it works
Three steps
01
Remote write
Add Owlpane as a Prometheus remote-write target.
02
Send traces and logs
Add the OTLP exporter to your Collector.
03
Keep Grafana
Point a Grafana data source at the read endpoint while you compare.
Side by side
What each one charges for
| Typical Grafana Cloud (Pro, public rates) | Owlpane | |
|---|---|---|
| Logs | $0.40 per GB written plus processing and retention (often ~30-day default) | Counted in GB ingested |
| Traces | Billed per GB written, separate from logs | Counted in GB ingested |
| Metrics | $6.50 per 1,000 billable active series | Counted in GB ingested |
| Self-hosted ops | Four components to run, upgrade and capacity-plan | Hosted; optional dedicated cell on Scale and Enterprise |
| What you forecast | Active series plus GB per signal | GB ingested |
Grafana figures come from public pricing summaries in October 2026; confirm on grafana.com/pricing. Self-hosted Loki has no licence fee but you pay engineers and infrastructure — Bronto and others quote similar hidden ops cost. Grafana Cloud pricing · Bronto vs Grafana (reference) · Estimate Owlpane with the cost calculator
What matters most
Where each platform wins
Cost of ownership
Grafana stack
Self-hosted: you run and tune Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Grafana. Cloud: separate meters for series, log GB and trace GB.
Owlpane
One GB-ingested meter; Team is $29 including 50 GB, then $0.35 per GB. No per-host fee.
Query model
Grafana stack
LogQL filters streams then scans; latency grows with stream count and cardinality.
Owlpane
Search-first logs and traces: filter by any field you see, without a label budget.
Retention
Grafana stack
Cloud logs and traces often default to 30 days; longer retention is sold in increments. Self-hosted: whatever your object store and ops team sustain.
Owlpane
30-day retention on Team; longer on Scale and Enterprise. Same linked view for the whole window.
Operations
Grafana stack
You choose sizing, compactor rules, cardinality limits and upgrades — or pay Grafana to run it.
Owlpane
Fully hosted; Prometheus remote write and OTLP in. Keep Grafana as a reader while you compare.
Questions
Is there a LogQL or full PromQL engine?
No. Log analytics is search-first, and PromQL support is a read endpoint rather than full parity.
Where Owlpane is narrower
- No library of community dashboards.
- No LogQL clone or log-to-metric rules yet.
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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Every new workspace starts with a 14-day Team trial: 50 GB of ingest a month and 30-day retention. No card to start. Documentation · Pricing · Pricing questions