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Grafana vs New Relic
Grafana is an open-source dashboarding tool requiring separate data sources; New Relic provides a full-stack platform with built-in data collection and AI features.
GrafanaOpen-source dashboards and observability
New RelicObservability platform for apps and infrastructureWhich to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- Open-source visualization
- Open-source code (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
- Integrations with Kubernetes or Slack (on Grafana's list, not New Relic's)
Pick New Relic if you want…
- AI-aware full-stack observability
- Integrations with StatsD, eBPF or 800+ pre-built integrations (on New Relic'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.
- New Relic:New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates telemetry across apps, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- New Relic:AI-aware full-stack observability
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- New Relic:Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product teams needing full-stack monitoring.
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- New Relic:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- New Relic:Free $0
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- New Relic:—
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- New Relic:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF, 800+ pre-built integrations
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.
New Relic features
- AI-driven root cause analysis. Automatically identifies the cause of incidents across services and AI agents.
- Unified data layer. Collects logs, metrics, traces, and digital experience data in one place.
- Infrastructure & Kubernetes monitoring. Provides real-time health views for hosts, containers, and K8s clusters.
- Digital experience monitoring. Session replay, browser, mobile, and synthetic checks to track user friction.
- AI model monitoring. Tracks model performance, cost, and hallucinations with agentic tracing.
- Security & compliance. Vulnerability management, FedRAMP/HIPAA eligibility, and log obfuscation.
- OpenTelemetry support. Ingests data via OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF and other standards.
- Extensible integrations. 800+ pre-built integrations for cloud, SaaS, and on-prem services.
Grafana vs New Relic FAQ
Is Grafana or New Relic free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. New Relic has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Grafana or New Relic open source?+
Grafana is open source (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for New Relic.
Do Grafana and New Relic integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. Grafana also lists Kubernetes and Slack; New Relic also lists StatsD, eBPF and 800+ pre-built integrations.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.