Replace Grafana Cloud
Dashboards over time-series data, typically fed by an agent on every host.
Why teams move off Grafana Cloud
Dashboards over metrics you must first ship somewhere, via an agent on every host you run.
What you give up
Everything outside the application: hosts, queues, networks.
This directory says so when an engine only covers part of the job. A replacement that needs a caveat is still worth knowing about — it just should not surprise you in week three.
2 Rails engines that replace Grafana Cloud
Questions
- Is there an open-source alternative to Grafana Cloud for Rails?
- Yes — onlylogs and PgHero. Both mount into an application you already run, so there is no second deployment and no second database.
- What do I give up by replacing Grafana Cloud?
- Everything outside the application: hosts, queues, networks.
- How do I replace Grafana Cloud in a Rails app?
- Add onlylogs to your Gemfile, mount it in config/routes.rb at /onlylogs, and run its migrations. The whole integration is two lines and a migration.
- How much does replacing Grafana Cloud save?
- Grafana Cloud is priced free tier, then usage-priced. The engines here are open source, so the cost becomes the time to mount one and the resources it uses inside your existing application.
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