Thingsboard vs. Grafana Cloud

ThingsBoard enhances device connectivity by utilizing popular IoT protocols like MQTT, CoAP, and HTTP, catering to both cloud-based and local deployments. It is designed with a focus on scalability, robustness, and outstanding performance, safeguarding your data effectively. Users can securely provision, monitor, and manage their IoT devices through extensive server-side APIs. The platform enables the seamless connection of devices, assets, customers, and other entities, simplifying integration. Telemetry data can be collected and stored effectively in a resilient and scalable manner. Users have the option to visualize their data through built-in or customized widgets, along with adaptable dashboards that can be shared with clients. Additionally, ThingsBoard allows for the creation of data processing rule chains, which help transform and standardize device data efficiently. Alerts can be triggered based on incoming telemetry events, attribute updates, device inactivity, and user interactions, further enhancing system responsiveness. To maximize scalability and fault tolerance, users can build a ThingsBoard cluster utilizing its microservices architecture. Furthermore, the platform supports both cloud and on-premises configurations, providing a flexible solution for diverse deployment requirements. This adaptability empowers users to customize their IoT implementations to meet specific needs and preferences, ensuring an optimal experience.

Grafana Labs provides the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations worldwide, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, delivering full-stack visibility across modern applications, infrastructure, and digital services. Built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems, the platform unifies metrics, logs, traces, and profiles into a scalable observability experience that helps teams detect issues earlier, resolve incidents faster, and operate more efficiently. At the core of Grafana Cloud is the open-source LGTM stack: Grafana for dashboards and visualization, Mimir for scalable metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for distributed tracing. Native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support make it easy to collect telemetry from any environment, while hundreds of integrations connect existing systems and tools—allowing organizations to extend observability without vendor lock-in. Grafana Cloud also introduces powerful AI-driven observability capabilities. Grafana Assistant helps teams explore data, investigate incidents, and troubleshoot faster through an intelligent interface built for engineers. Adaptive Telemetry identifies high-value signals and aggregates the rest, helping organizations reduce telemetry costs while maintaining operational insight. With solutions spanning Kubernetes monitoring, application and infrastructure observability, frontend monitoring, database observability, incident response, synthetic monitoring, and performance testing, Grafana Cloud delivers the clarity teams need to move faster and operate with confidence.