Compare Grafana vs. Okay

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers. Grafana Cloud delivers the full power of Grafana’s open and composable observability stack—without the overhead of managing infrastructure. As a fully managed SaaS offering from Grafana Labs, it unifies metrics, logs, and traces in one place, giving engineering teams real-time visibility into systems and applications. Built around the LGTM Stack—Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics—Grafana Cloud provides a scalable foundation for modern observability. With built-in integrations for Kubernetes, cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and OpenTelemetry, Grafana Cloud accelerates time to value while reducing operational complexity. Grafana Cloud also supports OLAP-style analytics through integrations with data warehouses and analytical engines like BigQuery, ClickHouse, and Druid—enabling multi-dimensional exploration across observability and business data. Teams gain access to powerful features like Adaptive Metrics for cost optimization, incident response workflows, and synthetic monitoring for performance testing—all within a secure, globally distributed platform. Whether you’re modernizing infrastructure, scaling observability, or driving SLO-based performance, Grafana Cloud delivers the insights you need—fast, flexible, and vendor-neutral.

There’s no requirement to create your own analytics pipeline or to investigate which developer productivity metrics are essential. Our platform seamlessly integrates ingestion, modeling, and exploration into one cohesive system. Okay is equipped with ready-to-use dashboards that highlight impediments such as excessive meeting and interview schedules disrupting engineers, delayed, stagnant, or unresolved code reviews, and after-hours on-call notifications that can contribute to employee burnout. You have the ability to establish custom alerts with flexible thresholds, allowing you to proactively address these issues before they escalate. With Okay, there's no hassle of copying, pasting, or reconciling data; we connect with your existing tools while eliminating duplicate information regarding teams and projects. Analyze your calendar events to assess meeting loads and interview schedules, while also gaining insight into your team's paging demands during and after work hours. Additionally, you can extract metrics related to pull requests and other aspects of the codebase for a comprehensive overview of productivity. Ultimately, Okay empowers teams to focus on what truly matters—enhancing efficiency and well-being.