Choose Checkly if you need
- Integration with Playwright, PagerDuty or Opsgenie. We haven't found them on Grafana Cloud's website.
- SSO. We haven't found it on Grafana Cloud's website.
At a glance
- Both have a free plan.
- Checkly's lowest paid plan is Starter at $24 per month, billed annually, as of October 20, 2026.
- Grafana Cloud's lowest paid plan is Pro at $19 per month, plus usage, as of October 19, 2026.
- Both work with Slack and Prometheus.
- Both list SOC 2 and GDPR.
- Only Checkly lists SSO.
- Both have a public API.
From each tool's own website, checked on the dates below, and from published reviews.
Which to choose
From the facts checked for both tools, not from opinion. A fact we haven't confirmed for one of them is never counted.
Choose Grafana Cloud if you need
- Integration with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes or AWS. We haven't found them on Checkly's website.
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Review Grafana CloudThe facts
- What it does
- ChecklyThe active reliability layer for developers and agents
- Grafana CloudMonitor metrics, logs, traces and profiles on a fully managed observability platform
- Free plan
- ChecklyYes
- Grafana CloudYes
- Pricing
- ChecklyFlat monthly
- Grafana CloudFlat monthly plus usage
- Paid plans from
- Checkly
What they share
From the platforms and integrations each website lists.
Integrations
Both
- Slack
- Prometheus
Only Checkly
- Playwright
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Microsoft Teams
- incident.io
- Terraform
- Pulumi
Only Grafana Cloud
- OpenTelemetry
People who switched
Reviewers who say they used one of these before the other.
No reviewer has said they moved between Checkly and Grafana Cloud yet.
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