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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
Amazon Managed Prometheus
Category

Management & Governance, Observability

Management & Governance, Monitoring

Description

Fully managed Grafana service for interactive data visualizations and dashboards.

Serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container metrics at scale.

Best for
  • Operational dashboards
  • IoT monitoring
  • Application observability
  • Business metrics
  • Container monitoring
  • Kubernetes metrics
  • Application monitoring
  • Infrastructure metrics
Key features
  • Managed Grafana
  • Multiple data sources
  • SSO integration
  • Alerting
  • Plugin support
  • Prometheus compatible
  • PromQL queries
  • Auto scaling
  • Multi-AZ
  • Alert manager
Pricing model

Pay per active editor/viewer user per month

Pay per metric samples ingested + stored + queried

Free tier

No

Yes

Expert take

“Managed Grafana gives you fully managed Grafana workspaces with built-in IAM authentication and data source plugins for CloudWatch, Prometheus, X-Ray, and Timestream.”
— Didier Durand, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

“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.”
— Gary McLean, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

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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

Learn more about Amazon Managed Grafana »

Use Amazon Managed Prometheus when:

  • Container monitoring
  • Kubernetes metrics
  • Application monitoring
  • Infrastructure metrics

Learn more about Amazon Managed Prometheus »

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