Grafana vs OpenTelemetry
A side-by-side comparison of two open-source tools to help you choose the right one.
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Dashboards and observability for everything. | Vendor-neutral observability for every stack. |
| GitHub stars | 66K | 5.4K |
| License | AGPL 3.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Language | Go | Go |
| Pricing | Free & Open Source | Free & Open Source |
| Self-hostable | ||
| Replaces | Datadog, New Relic | Datadog, New Relic |
| Rating | 4.7 / 5 | 4.8 / 5 |
Grafana features
- 150+ data source integrations
- Rich, interactive dashboards
- Metrics, logs, and traces in one view
- Flexible alerting
- Plugins and templating
OpenTelemetry features
- Unified SDKs for traces, metrics, and logs in 11+ languages
- OpenTelemetry Collector — a vendor-agnostic pipeline daemon
- Auto-instrumentation for popular frameworks (Express, Spring, Django…)
- Exporters for Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Grafana LGTM, and 50+ backends
- W3C-standard trace context propagation across services