Grafana + Prometheus
Top pickThe open-source observability standard.
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sovereigntyPrometheus stores metrics, Grafana visualizes them, and Loki and Tempo add logs and traces — together the de-facto open-source stack that replaces New Relic's dashboards, alerting, and metrics at hardware cost, fully self-hostable.
OPEN SOURCEAGPL-3.0 (Grafana) / Apache-2.0 (Prometheus)SELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseAGPL-3.0 (Grafana) / Apache-2.0 (Prometheus)
PricingFree / self-host
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes
What it does well
- +Industry-standard with an enormous ecosystem of dashboards and integrations
- +Metrics, logs, and traces through one Grafana UI
- +Portable OpenTelemetry/Prometheus data, no proprietary query lock-in
Where it falls short
- −You assemble and operate several components yourself
- −Steeper initial setup than a hosted agent
- −APM/tracing needs Tempo and instrumentation work to match New Relic
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