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Grafana vs UpDog
Grafana provides open-source dashboards; UpDog offers hosted monitoring with built-in alerts and status pages.
Which to pick
Pick Grafana if you want…
- Open-standard full-stack observability
- Dashboard-centric observability
- Open-source code (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
- Integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus or Kubernetes (on Grafana's list, not UpDog's)
Pick UpDog if you want…
- Hosted uptime monitoring with status pages
- Integrations with Email, SMS or Discord (on UpDog'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.
- UpDog:UpDog is a hosted uptime monitoring service with status pages and multi-channel alerts.
- Best for
- Grafana:Open-standard full-stack observability
- UpDog:Hosted uptime monitoring with status pages
- Who it’s for
- Grafana:Developers, SREs and teams needing full-stack observability and cost-optimized telemetry.
- UpDog:Teams and solo developers who need website, API and service monitoring.
- Pricing
- Grafana:Freemium
- UpDog:Freemium
- Plans
- Grafana:Free $0 · Pro $19 per month + usage · Enterprise $25,000 per year spend commit
- UpDog:Puppy Free
- Open source
- Grafana:Yes, 77,033 GitHub stars
- UpDog:—
- Works with
- Grafana:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Slack
- UpDog:Email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram, Splunk
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.
UpDog features
- Website & API monitoring. Checks URLs, APIs and ports continuously and alerts on failures.
- SSL & DNS checks. Monitors certificate expiry and DNS record changes.
- Cron & heartbeat monitoring. Tracks scheduled jobs and background tasks without agents.
- Public status pages. Creates branded status pages with uptime and response-time charts.
- Multi-channel alerts. Sends alerts via email, SMS (paid), Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram and webhooks.
- Team collaboration. Shared organization, role-based invites and multiple user seats per plan.
Grafana vs UpDog FAQ
Is Grafana or UpDog free?+
Grafana has a free plan and paid plans. UpDog has a free plan (Puppy) and paid plans.
Is Grafana or UpDog open source?+
Grafana is open source (grafana/grafana on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for UpDog.
Do Grafana and UpDog integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list Slack. Grafana also lists OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Kubernetes; UpDog also lists Email, SMS, Discord, Microsoft Teams and 4 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.