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Grafana vs Oh Dear
Grafana is an open-source dashboard platform; Oh Dear is a hosted all-in-one monitoring service with alerts and status pages.
GrafanaOpen-source dashboards and observability
Oh DearThe all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire websiteWhich to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- Custom dashboards and metrics visualization
- Open-source code (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
- Integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus or Kubernetes (on Grafana's list, not Oh Dear's)
Pick Oh Dear if you want…
- Unified website monitoring and client reporting
- Integrations with PagerDuty, Opsgenie or Webhooks (on Oh Dear'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.
- Oh Dear:Oh Dear is an all-in-one website health monitoring service that checks uptime, SSL, DNS, broken links, performance and more.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- Oh Dear:Unified website monitoring and client reporting
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- Oh Dear:Developers, agencies and freelancers who manage multiple client websites
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- Oh Dear:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- Oh Dear:Solo €15 per month · Freelance €49 per month · Studio €99 per month · Agency €149 per month
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- Oh Dear:—
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- Oh Dear:Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Webhooks
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.
Oh Dear features
- Uptime & health checks. Monitors uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance every minute from multiple locations.
- Alert routing. Sends alerts to the right person via Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie or webhooks.
- Branded status pages. Creates white-label status pages for each client with custom logo and domain.
- Automated client reports. Generates monthly reports with uptime, performance trends, broken links and SSL health.
- Full API & integrations. Provides a REST API and integrates with common notification services and monitoring tools.
- Security & team features. Includes SSO, two-factor authentication, unlimited users and role-based permissions on every plan.
Grafana vs Oh Dear FAQ
Is Grafana or Oh Dear free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. Oh Dear has a free plan; paid plans start at €15/month (Solo).
Is Grafana or Oh Dear open source?+
Grafana is open source (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Oh Dear.
Do Grafana and Oh Dear integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list Slack. Grafana also lists OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Kubernetes; Oh Dear also lists PagerDuty, Opsgenie and Webhooks.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.