Compare Grafana Cloud vs. Riverbed IQ

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.

When organizations choose to invest in a comprehensive observability platform that integrates data, insights, and actions throughout their IT landscape, they are able to address issues more swiftly while also removing data silos, reducing the need for resource-intensive war rooms, and alleviating alert fatigue. The Riverbed IQ unified observability solution empowers both business and IT to make quick and effective decisions by encapsulating expert troubleshooting knowledge, enabling less experienced staff to deliver more first-level resolutions, which in turn fosters digital innovation and enhances the overall digital experience for both customers and employees. By utilizing broad-based telemetry, organizations can attain a cohesive view of performance and insights, establishing a solid foundation of unified observability that supports the delivery of all other capabilities. Riverbed IQ’s methodology towards unified observability initiates with our full-fidelity telemetry, which spans across network and infrastructure components and incorporates metrics related to the end-user experience, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of system performance. This holistic approach not only streamlines troubleshooting but also positions organizations to respond adeptly to evolving digital demands.