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Grafana vs IsDown
Grafana provides dashboards for metrics and logs, but does not aggregate external vendor status pages.
GrafanaOpen-source dashboards and observability
IsDownThe best way to monitor all your third-party status pagesWhich to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- Metrics visualization
- Open-source code (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
- Integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus or Kubernetes (on Grafana's list, not IsDown's)
Pick IsDown if you want…
- Unified vendor status monitoring
- Integrations with Microsoft Teams, Discord or Email (on IsDown's list, not Grafana's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Grafana:Grafana Cloud is an open-source-based observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles and business data.
- IsDown:IsDown aggregates status pages from 6,320+ vendors into a single dashboard with real-time alerts and custom status pages.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- IsDown:Unified vendor status monitoring
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- IsDown:DevOps, SRE, IT teams and anyone needing third-party service monitoring
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- IsDown:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- IsDown:Starter $27/mo per month · Pro $49/mo per month · Premium $99/mo per month · Business $179/mo per month · MSP $200/mo per month
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- IsDown:—
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- IsDown:Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Email, SMS, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog
Grafana features
- AI Assistant. Ask natural-language questions, build dashboards and run investigations directly from Grafana, Slack or the terminal.
- Adaptive Telemetry. Automatically identifies low-value data and aggregates it, cutting telemetry spend by up to 80%.
- Full-stack observability. Unified view of metrics, logs, traces, profiles and synthetic monitoring on a single map.
- OpenTelemetry-native. Native support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus with hundreds of plugins and integrations.
- Cost Management. Pay-as-you-go pricing with volume-based discounts and a free tier that includes all services.
- Compliance & Security. FedRAMP, NIST-100, PCI-DSS, GDPR and SOC-2 certifications for enterprise use.
IsDown features
- Unified vendor dashboard. View status of 6,320+ cloud services in one place with real-time updates.
- Smart notifications. Filter alerts by service, component or severity and receive weekly digests.
- Integrations. Send alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Datadog, Opsgenie, webhooks and more.
- Custom status pages. Create public or private status pages with custom domains and password protection.
- Own service monitoring. Monitor HTTP endpoints, keywords and SSL certificates from multiple locations.
- Enterprise features. SSO, multi-team boards, historical data and dedicated account manager.
Grafana vs IsDown FAQ
Is Grafana or IsDown free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. IsDown has a free plan; paid plans start at $27/month (Starter).
Is Grafana or IsDown open source?+
Grafana is open source (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for IsDown.
Do Grafana and IsDown integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list Slack. Grafana also lists OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Kubernetes; IsDown also lists Microsoft Teams, Discord, Email, SMS and 6 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.