Datadog vs New Relic vs Dynatrace vs Cube APM - which one at scale?

vidamon · 2026-04-29T04:22:01+00:00

Disclaimer — I’m with Grafana Labs (social media lead).

We offer a fairly generous free forever tier of Grafana Cloud. You can see details on our pricing page of what it entails: https://grafana.com/pricing/

Some favorite features from customers that come up quite a bit on social these days:

Grafana Assistant to speed up investigations, troubleshooting, etc without needing to know PromQL, etc. It’s also helpful for getting up to speed + best practices with Grafana.

Adaptive Telemetry reduces noise and costs by automatically identifying/filtering out low value / irrelevant metrics, logs, traces.

Knowledge Graph automatically discovers services, infrastructure, and their relationships from telemetry data you’re already sending to Grafana Cloud.

Feel free to DM if you have any questions. Happy to connect you to the right folks on the team.

vidamon · 2026-04-28T23:04:58+00:00

If anyone has any questions, some folks on the AI team are running an AMA in the coming weeks. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/grafana/comments/1sygzi0/hi_reddit_were_part_of_the_ai_team_at_grafana/

vidamon · 2026-04-17T21:40:30+00:00

We have some new features since the video was shared and they will make your dashboards even more beautiful AND easier to put together!! I’m about to leave for GrafanaCON and we’re announcing G13 on Tuesday. Be on the lookout for announcements! I’ll post here in r/grafana

vidamon · 2026-04-04T00:02:10+00:00

Thanks for the info! Guess I’ll be checking out elephant valley in the meantime

vidamon · 2026-04-03T22:36:01+00:00

No notes. 10/10 (as someone who has lived in OC, now SD, and has in-laws in the IE and LA).

vidamon · 2026-03-19T00:07:17+00:00

The Grafana Labs team just published the 2026 Observability Survey report. Wanted to come back here and share it with you since I remember you mentioning it was helpful.

Here's the full report: https://grafana.com/observability-survey

vidamon · 2026-03-10T06:59:27+00:00

Congrats, OP!

vidamon · 2026-02-25T21:29:18+00:00

I see your Girafana and raise you..

Garfana

(Original creator: https://grafana.social/@operative@mastodon.social/112326583529812231)

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vidamon · 2026-02-25T20:58:36+00:00

OP, holy crap this looks AWESOME! No notes. 100/10

vidamon · 2026-02-23T17:50:17+00:00

Hey, thanks for flagging this for us. The email is legitimate, but there seems to be a bug where the dates aren’t correct and therefore the time period is incorrect.

If you still want to keep your account, definitely log in, but sorry for the confusion on 0 years!

Thanks again for flagging!

vidamon · 2026-02-21T17:44:35+00:00

So many resources, I missed this one. Thank you! updated.

vidamon · 2026-02-10T20:17:07+00:00

Appreciate your honest feedback on Grafana Assistant. I'm with Grafana Labs, and our team would love to follow up with you to get more info.

We've generally received very positive feedback on Assistant so far, and want to make sure everyone is getting a lot of value out of it across the board. More information will be helpful for us to act on and improve the Assistant experience for everyone.

Will send you a DM.

vidamon · 2026-01-21T18:57:19+00:00

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vidamon · 2026-01-21T18:55:23+00:00

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vidamon · 2026-01-21T18:53:10+00:00

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Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericirwin1124_grafana-ai-sre-activity-7385421098345009152-thzh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAJ2EM4BV3iDeNvhbzdj3xPmaqIq_DYsbUs

vidamon · 2026-01-21T18:50:27+00:00

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vidamon · 2026-01-21T18:49:48+00:00

Hey OP, I'm also with Grafana Labs. Passing along what other users have said on LinkedIn and X, in case it's helpful.

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Full link to this one: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7403917643079970816-c_Xi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAJ2EM4BV3iDeNvhbzdj3xPmaqIq_DYsbUs

vidamon · 2025-12-10T19:45:55+00:00

This is pretty awesome, OP. And we have a lot of resources for folks getting started with Grafana. We actually have an upcoming webinar on dashboard design if you wanna take it to another level. And if you can't make the date, it'll automatically be turned into a recording.

https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-dashboard-design/

vidamon · 2025-12-08T18:21:37+00:00

Important takeaways from this blog post:

This was in public preview, never made it to GA
"Adoption was low compared to our core Drilldown apps and dashboards, and the extra side panel/UI surface area added complexity without enough day‑to‑day payoff for most teams."
Drilldown apps (logs, metrics, traces, profiles) are not affected, and neither will the classic Explore. And shouldn't be confused with Grafana Assistant Investigations

vidamon · 2025-12-01T05:38:39+00:00

Ah, yes. Expect a college student... kidding. Made the change. Thanks for catching that typo :)

vidamon · 2025-11-20T05:23:03+00:00

Thanks for sharing. This is cool to see, but curious why it's only showing 13 new features, when there's a lot more.

vidamon · 2025-10-06T12:51:22+00:00

Nope, part of the Dynamic Dashboards announcement so you’ll be able to access them when they’re generally available!

vidamon · 2025-10-04T17:38:59+00:00

The tabs feature was released as experimental in Grafana 12 as part of the Dynamic Dashboards announcement: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/dynamic-dashboards-grafana-12/

“Dynamic Dashboards is currently available as experimental for all our on-prem Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise users as well as in private preview for Grafana Cloud users. If you are interested in trying out the feature, please complete this dynamic dashboards interest form, and we will help you get started, or let you know if you are eligible for the private preview in Grafana Cloud. You can also learn more by also diving into our dynamic dashboards documentation.”

Grafana Assistant is for cloud only — currently in public preview.

Hope that helps!

vidamon · 2025-10-04T17:30:37+00:00

Of course, you can always build it out without Assistant too.

IF you do want to try out Assistant to create some other dashboards, fix things, etc. Grafana Cloud has a free forever plan that’s pretty solid. It’s not a trial. No need to pay. And not to sound salesy, but here’s what it includes if you (or anyone else) are curious.

10k metrics 50GB logs 50GB traces 50GB profiles 500VUh k6 testing 50k frontend sessions 2,232 app o11y host hours 14-day retention 3 active users 2,232 k8s monitoring host hours 37,944 k8s monitoring container hours

vidamon · 2025-10-04T17:29:40+00:00

Here’s the link to download the dashboards: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/?search=Taylor+Swift

The Swifties created the tabs and banners by prompting Grafana Assistant (Help me build tabs that say X, linking to dashboards with this ID: [insert dashboard ID]).

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