Compare Grafana Cloud vs. Yellowfin

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.

Yellowfin is the only analytics suite that successfully combines action based dashboards with industry-leading automated analysis and data storytelling. By delivering the best analytical experience, Yellowfin provides your users with unique ways to engage with and act on their data, and addresses the needs of data analysts, business users, customers and developers who want to build, deploy or use amazing analytical experiences. Analytics for software companies: Integrate and embed analytics with a difference into your app, your way • Replace legacy or home grown reporting tools • Embed a modern self-service analytics suite • Deliver an exceptional customer experience Analytics for enterprise: Get more value from your data in new and innovative ways • Migrate from spreadsheets to a modern analytics platform • Replace legacy BI applications • Embed analytics into operational workflows Analytical Application Builders: Leverage your domain expertise to create data products that delight • Create unique data driven applications • Close the loop on analytics • Deliver insights as a service