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Grafana vs Oh Dear
Short answer: Pick Grafana if you want open-standard full-stack observability; pick Oh Dear if you want unified website monitoring and client reporting. Grafana has a free plan; Oh Dear has a free plan, paid from €15/month.
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
- Starting price
- Grafana:—
- Oh Dear:€15/month (Solo)
- Free plan or trial
- Grafana:Free plan (Free)
- Oh Dear:Free trial
- 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
What is the difference between Grafana and Oh Dear?+
Grafana is an open-source dashboard platform; Oh Dear is a hosted all-in-one monitoring service with alerts and status pages.
Should I use Grafana or Oh Dear?+
Pick Grafana if you want open-standard full-stack observability, custom dashboards and metrics visualization or open-source code (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). Pick Oh Dear if you want unified website monitoring and client reporting or integrations with PagerDuty, Opsgenie or Webhooks (on Oh Dear's list, not Grafana's).
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
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