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Grafana vs Keep
Grafana offers dashboards and observability, whereas Keep specializes in alert management and AI correlation.
Which to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- Open-source dashboards
- Integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus or Kubernetes (on Grafana's list, not Keep's)
Pick Keep if you want…
- Unified alert management with AI-driven correlation
- Integrations with AppDynamics, Datadog or Jira (on Keep'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.
- Keep:Keep is an open-source platform to create, manage, query and automate alerts across many systems.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- Keep:Unified alert management with AI-driven correlation
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- Keep:SREs, operators, engineers and teams that need centralized alert management.
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- Keep:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- Keep:Startup $0 / month · Growth $199 / month
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- Keep:Yes, 12,375 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- Keep:AppDynamics, Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty, GitHub, CloudWatch, Grafana, GCP Monitoring
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.
Keep features
- Bi-directional integrations. Connect to over 90 providers such as Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty and custom sources, keeping alerts in sync.
- Single pane of glass. Query, slice and analyze alerts with a common expression language and rule-based grouping.
- Workflow engine. Build YAML-based or UI workflows to enrich alerts, run Python scripts or update tickets.
- AI-driven AIOps (Enterprise). Correlate alerts using past incidents and a continuous feedback loop to reduce noise.
- Self-hosted or cloud deployment. Choose open-source self-hosting or a managed cloud service with optional enterprise features.
- RBAC & SSO (Enterprise). Control access with role-based permissions and SAML/SSO integration.
Grafana vs Keep FAQ
Is Grafana or Keep free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. Keep has a free plan (Startup); paid plans start at $199/month (Growth).
Is Grafana or Keep open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Grafana (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license) and Keep (keephq/keep on GitHub).
Do Grafana and Keep integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Grafana lists OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes and Slack; Keep lists AppDynamics, Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty and 4 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.