Oh Dear vs Grafana Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Oh Dear and Grafana Cloud.
Quick Verdict
4.2/5
Oh Dear
0 reviews
3.9/5
Grafana Cloud
0 reviews
Oh Dear is rated higher (4.2 vs 3.9). Oh Dear provides uptime monitoring, SSL certificate monitoring, broken link checking, DNS monitoring, and cron job monitoring from a single dashboard. Simple, no-frills approach. Grafana Cloud provides managed Grafana, Prometheus, Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and k6 (load testing). Free tier includes 10,000 metrics series. Open source self-hosting also available.
Oh Dear Website monitoring with SSL and broken link checks | Grafana Cloud Open source observability platform — cloud and self-hosted | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.2 (0 reviews)✓ | 3.9 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Starting price | From $15/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | Agencies and small teams who want one subscription covering uptime, SSL, broken links, DNS, cron and status pages for a roster of client sites | Teams wanting a managed, self-hostable observability stack with a genuinely useful free tier and metrics, logs, and traces under one pane |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Hosted in Belgium (EU) on ISO 27001 infrastructure; ~16 check locations worldwide | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | api access | free tieropen sourceself hostableapi accessteam features |
| Visit Oh Dear → | Visit Grafana Cloud → | |
Oh Dear
Pros
- + Every feature on every plan — no tiering of SSO, status pages, users, or API access
- + Two-location verification before firing alerts, which genuinely reduces false alarms
- + One site slot replaces uptime, SSL, broken-link, DNS, cron and Lighthouse tools at a predictable per-site price
- + EU-hosted (Belgium, ISO 27001 infrastructure) with full API and strong agency/reseller workflow
Cons
- - No free plan and no single-site tier below €15/month
- - Website/server monitoring only — no APM, metrics, logs, or host-level observability
- - Small vendor (2–10 people) with no published SLA for the monitoring service itself
- - Per-site cost is above bare uptime checkers; 200 sites costs €399/month
Grafana Cloud
Pros
- + Open source core (AGPLv3) across Grafana/Mimir/Loki/Tempo/Pyroscope — a real self-host exit
- + Permanent free tier: 10k metric series, 50 GB logs/traces/profiles, 500 k6 VUh, no credit card
- + Public Pro pricing ($19/mo platform fee, from $6.50/1k series) with automatic volume discounts
- + 42 stack regions on AWS, Azure, and GCP including a Federal Cloud option
Cons
- - Usage-based billing punishes metric cardinality and log verbosity — bills can spike on app-side mistakes
- - PromQL/LogQL and label design have a real learning curve
- - SLA is 99.5% (paid plans only) — below hyperscaler commitments
- - Some enterprise RBAC/audit/reporting features require a quote-based Enterprise plan
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