Compare Grafana Cloud vs. SquaredUp vs. VictoriaMetrics Cloud

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.

SquaredUp is a unified observability portal. Say goodbye to blind spots and data silos. Using data mesh and cutting-edge data visualization, SquaredUp gives IT and engineering teams one place to see everything that matters. Bring together data from across your tech stack without the headache of moving the data. Unlike other monitoring and observability tools that rely on a data warehouse, SquaredUp leaves your data where it is, plugging directly into each data source to index and stitch the data together using a data mesh. Teams have one place to go where they can search, visualize, and analyze data across all their tools. Take control of infrastructure, application, and product performance with unified visibility. Learn more at squaredup.com What you get: > Cutting-edge data visualization > Access to 100+ data sources > Any custom data source via Web API > Multi-cloud observability > Cost monitoring > Unlimited dashboards > Unlimited monitors Key features: > Out-of-box dashboards > Simple, flexible dashboard designer > Real-time monitoring > High-level roll-up views > Object drill downs > Notifications (Slack, Teams, email, etc.) > SQL analytics

VictoriaMetrics Cloud allows you to run VictoriaMetrics Enterprise on AWS without having to perform typical DevOps activities such as proper configuration and monitoring, log collection, security, software updates, software protection, or backups. We run VictoriaMetrics Cloud in our environment using AWS, and provide easy to use endpoints for data ingestion. VictoriaMetrics takes care of software maintenance and optimal configuration. It has the following features: It can be used to manage Prometheus. Configure Prometheus, Vmagent or VictoriaMetrics to write data into Managed VictoriaMetrics. Then use the endpoint provided as a Prometheus source in Grafana. Each VictoriaMetrics Cloud instance runs in a separate environment so that instances cannot interfere with one another; VictoriaMetrics Cloud can be scaled-up or scaled-down in just a few clicks. Automated backups.