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    Grafana Cloud

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGrafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.

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    Retool

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ARetool is a UI software component library presenting a fast way to build custom internal tools, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.

    $10

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Grafana CloudRetool
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Team
    $10
    per month per user
    Business
    $50
    per month per user
    Enterprise
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    Grafana CloudRetool
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Grafana CloudRetool
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    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Grafana Cloud and Retool
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    Ratings
    Retool
    6.7
    3 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings6.62 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Grafana CloudRetool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Grafana CloudRetool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Retool
    Works well in: Connecting directly to databases and APIs holding candidate data. Allows teams to easily drill into records from different data sources. Quick to build dashboards. It wouldn't work well without a team to actually get it set up. There is limited design/ branding, making it look very basic. Your team requires training because data can be overwritten easily. Having some knowledge with your whole team is super important, and if you work with contractors or non-tech people, this can be a huge issue.
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    Pros
    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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    Retool
    • Ease of use - someone with small amount of experience can use it.
    • Adaptability - you can build a lot of things with it.
    • Reliability - works quite well.
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    Cons
    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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    Retool
    • Some Retool apps can become slow to load or refresh.
    • When multiple team members work on the same app, changes can overwrite each other or break functionality.
    • The UI/UX is pretty basic.
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    Usability
    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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    Retool
    Because even though it is quite intuitive it is not the best tool I have ever seen.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Retool
    We selected Retool because it offers the best balance of usability and power compared to alternatives like Appsmith, ToolJet, and OutSystems. It allows us to build much faster, with broad integrations and strong enterprise features like permissions and environment management. Competing tools were either too limited, required more engineering effort. Overall, retool support has been decent too.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Retool
    • Major impact - ability to build a backend system is huge.
    • Major impact - used every day by multiple people.
    • Major impact - ability to be used by less technical teammates.
    Incentivized
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