CubeAPM vs. Grafana

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CubeAPM
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
CubeAPM is a full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that enables engineering teams to monitor services, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single pane of glass. Teams can self-host CubeAPM inside their own cloud or on-premises environment, or use it as a managed deployment. It delivers full-stack visibility with smart sampling, alerting, tracing, and unlimited data retention at a flat usage-based price of $0.15 per GB. Many teams face a trade-off in…
$0.15
per month per GB
Grafana
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.
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Pricing
CubeAPMGrafana
Editions & Modules
Pro
$0.15
per month Per GB
Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CubeAPMGrafana
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCubeAPM follows a transparent & predictable usage-based pricing model starting at $0.15 per GB of data ingested per month. Unlike traditional APM tools that charge by host or agent, CubeAPM pricing scales linearly with data volume—no hidden fees, overages, or lock-ins. Teams can deploy self-hosted or managed versions with unlimited data retention and predictable monthly billing. Enterprise plans include ISO 27001-certified infrastructure, dedicated support, and volume-based discounts.
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Community Pulse
CubeAPMGrafana
Features
CubeAPMGrafana
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
CubeAPM
-
Ratings
Grafana
8.2
7 Ratings
2% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
CubeAPM
-
Ratings
Grafana
7.9
6 Ratings
1% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.86 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
CubeAPM
-
Ratings
Grafana
8.4
6 Ratings
3% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
CubeAPM
-
Ratings
Grafana
8.6
6 Ratings
10% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
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User Ratings
CubeAPMGrafana
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
CubeAPMGrafana
Likelihood to Recommend
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
most of the needs are covered.
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Grafana Labs
Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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Pros
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • Alerting on set matrices
  • View graphs for needed matrices of our Application
  • with lower cost w.r.t the service we were using previously.
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Grafana Labs
  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Cons
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • if posible more details on DB query, Like NR used to give details of even Index used for that slow query. This might make easy to solve slow DB query ( wrong-index issue)
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Grafana Labs
  • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
  • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
  • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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Usability
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
We uses it.
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Grafana Labs
It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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Alternatives Considered
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
Satisfactory
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Grafana Labs
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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Return on Investment
Lighthusky Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • Gave us the needed feature which we were using with lower cost
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Grafana Labs
  • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
  • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
  • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
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ScreenShots

CubeAPM Screenshots

Screenshot of the CubeAPM Home pageScreenshot of an APM pageScreenshot of log managementScreenshot of the Real User Monitoring dashboardScreenshot of Infrastructure MonitoringScreenshot of Error Tracking