Compare Grafana Cloud vs. Percepio

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.

Percepio provides a comprehensive range of observability tools that empower developers with enhanced insight into the behavior of embedded software, facilitating faster debugging, performance enhancement, and increased reliability throughout the product development cycle. The cornerstone of its offerings, Percepio Tracealyzer, delivers RTOS-aware event tracing along with detailed visual diagnostics that aid in simplifying debugging and performance evaluation by showcasing thread execution, interrupt management, kernel interactions, communication pathways, CPU utilization, and personalized event information through user-friendly graphical timelines, which enable developers to swiftly pinpoint issues and performance bottlenecks. Additionally, Percepio’s extensive Continuous Observability software merges Tracealyzer with Detect, ensuring consistent runtime visibility during testing phases, and integrates DevAlert for monitoring cloud-connected devices, providing timely alerts and insights that help teams to proactively address potential problems and ensure stable performance in real-world applications. This holistic approach not only streamlines the development process but also reinforces the overall quality and robustness of embedded systems.