Compare Grafana vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

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.

Splunk Observability Cloud serves as an all-encompassing platform for real-time monitoring and observability, aimed at enabling organizations to achieve complete insight into their cloud-native infrastructures, applications, and services. By merging metrics, logs, and traces into a single solution, it delivers uninterrupted end-to-end visibility across intricate architectures. The platform's robust analytics, powered by AI-driven insights and customizable dashboards, empower teams to swiftly pinpoint and address performance challenges, minimize downtime, and enhance system reliability. Supporting a diverse array of integrations, it offers real-time, high-resolution data for proactive monitoring purposes. Consequently, IT and DevOps teams can effectively identify anomalies, optimize performance, and maintain the health and efficiency of both cloud and hybrid environments, ultimately fostering greater operational excellence.