Epok vs Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is the hosted LGTM stack — Grafana dashboards over Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), and Tempo (traces). It's powerful and open, and it's dashboard-first: you build the panels and alert rules. Epok is detection-first — it watches every signal, tells you what broke, and cites the evidence, with no dashboards or rules to build. If you want the stack to catch problems instead of waiting for someone to read a panel, read on.
Where Grafana Cloud wins
Grafana Cloud is a superb, open, scalable stack. Grafana dashboards are the industry standard, Mimir handles enormous metric cardinality, and the whole thing is open-source-backed and portable. If your team wants to own its visualization layer, run Prometheus-compatible metrics at scale, and build exactly the panels and alerts it wants, Grafana Cloud is the better fit. Epok is the opposite bet: less dashboarding, far more automatic detection and cited root cause out of the box.
- —You want the stack to catch problems automatically — not to build and maintain dashboards and alert rules.
- —You want cited root cause and cross-signal correlation without pivoting across three data sources by hand.
- —You want a flat price with no active-series or per-GB tax.
- —Your team doesn't have the time or platform depth to run and tune the LGTM stack.
- —You want best-in-class dashboards and the Grafana plugin ecosystem.
- —You run Prometheus-compatible metrics at very large scale (Mimir).
- —Open-source portability and owning your visualization layer matter to you.
- —Your team is happy building and maintaining its own panels and alert rules.
Point your existing shipper at a new endpoint.
Already on Prometheus or Loki? Add Epok as an additional destination — Prometheus remote_write and Loki push both flow straight into Epok's intelligence layer.
Traces and OTLP telemetry export to Epok with a collector config change, so your existing Grafana Cloud setup keeps working unchanged.
Run them side by side: keep Grafana for dashboards and let Epok watch the same data, then compare what it catches on its own.
Run them side by side. No card.
Dual-ship a copy of your telemetry for a week and compare what each tool actually catches. Every detector and full AI included in the trial.
* Capability comparisons, and any time or effort estimates, reflect our reading of publicly documented features and our own deployment experience as of June 2026. They may not capture every plan, feature, or recent change — verify current capabilities directly with each vendor.
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