Compare Grafana Cloud vs. I&B monitoring

Grafana Labs delivers the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations worldwide, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, designed to help engineering teams observe everything and solve anything. Built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems, it unifies metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in a single platform for full-stack visibility across applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences. At the core is the open-source LGTM stack: Grafana for dashboards and visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for distributed tracing. Native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support allow teams to ingest telemetry from virtually any environment, while hundreds of integrations connect existing tools and data sources without costly rip-and-replace migrations. Grafana Cloud combines powerful analytics with AI-driven observability. Grafana Assistant helps engineers investigate issues, explore telemetry, and troubleshoot faster. Adaptive Telemetry identifies the data that matters most and aggregates the rest, helping organizations reduce telemetry costs while preserving valuable insights . With solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, application observability, digital experience monitoring, incident response, synthetic monitoring, and performance testing, Grafana Cloud delivers a complete observability platform that scales with your business.

I&B monitoring is a cloud-based Business & IT infrastructure monitoring platform that brings business performance, IT services and underlying infrastructure into one unified system. Instead of stitching together separate tools for servers, applications and business reporting, teams work from one source of truth. The platform collects metrics, logs and traces from servers, databases, containers, virtual machines, network devices and applications. Ready-made exporters and resource templates cover common technologies, so you simply define what to monitor, which metrics to collect and which sources to collect them from. Downloadable Ansible files let you deploy agents and exporters across an entire environment with a single command. A business-to-resource hierarchy links business units and subunits, IT services, service layers and individual resources. Graph-based visualisations make the dependencies between them visible, so an engineer can see at once whether a failure sits in the application layer or deeper in the infrastructure, and which business KPIs and customers are affected. Dashboards are role-specific. Executives and business unit managers get KPI and status views, operations teams get real-time service and resource health, DevOps and SRE engineers get incident context and performance detail, and security teams get operational context around anomalies. Pre-built dashboards ship out of the box. Contextual alerting groups related threshold breaches into meaningful, actionable incidents and separates component faults, layer issues, outages and business-impacting events, cutting alert noise. Native integrations with Jira, Zendesk, Zoho Desk and email create tickets automatically, enriched with the correlated metrics and events behind the incident.