Compare Grafana Cloud vs. Riverbed Portal

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.

Navigating performance visibility in today’s intricate IT landscapes can be quite challenging, particularly with applications that traverse traditional data centers, SaaS, and IaaS cloud setups. A conventional, siloed management approach often leads to a disjointed and incomplete understanding of performance metrics. Consequently, IT teams find themselves dedicating significant time to data analysis, frequently arriving at divergent and sometimes contradictory insights regarding the root causes of performance issues. The Riverbed Portal addresses this issue by consolidating performance telemetry, resulting in a unified and dynamic overview of performance metrics. This comprehensive perspective provides IT operations teams with a reliable single source of truth, which streamlines troubleshooting processes and delivers valuable insights for stakeholders across the organization. Ultimately, this enables IT to effectively manage and enhance applications, data, and traffic within the entire hybrid network, allowing key resources to concentrate on high-priority strategic initiatives while reducing the likelihood of performance-related disputes. By fostering a clearer understanding of performance, teams can make informed decisions that drive overall efficiency and effectiveness within the organization.