What's the Difference Between Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon Managed Prometheus?
Compare Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon Managed Prometheus side by side — features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right product.
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Amazon Managed Grafana
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Amazon Managed Prometheus
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Category
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Management & Governance, Observability |
Management & Governance, Monitoring |
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Description
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Fully managed Grafana service for interactive data visualizations and dashboards. |
Serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container metrics at scale. |
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Key features
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Pricing model
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Pay per active editor/viewer user per month |
Pay per metric samples ingested + stored + queried |
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Free tier
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No |
Yes |
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Expert take
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“Managed Grafana gives you fully managed Grafana workspaces with built-in IAM authentication and data source plugins for CloudWatch, Prometheus, X-Ray, and Timestream.” |
“Managed Prometheus ingests and stores Prometheus metrics at scale without managing servers. It is compatible with PromQL and integrates natively with EKS and Managed Grafana.” |
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Product page
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When to use Amazon Managed Grafana or Amazon Managed Prometheus
Use Amazon Managed Grafana when:
- Operational dashboards
- IoT monitoring
- Application observability
- Business metrics
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Use Amazon Managed Prometheus when:
- Container monitoring
- Kubernetes metrics
- Application monitoring
- Infrastructure metrics
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