HostedMetrics vs IBM Cloud Monitoring
HostedMetrics
hostedmetrics.comIBM Cloud Monitoring
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| Figure | HostedMetrics | IBM Cloud Monitoring |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $79/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 3 |
| Spec score · Cloud Monitoring | 7.9 (#10) | 6.0 (#26) |
Plans
HostedMetrics
- Startup$79 a month
- Professional$329 a month
- Business$829 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
IBM Cloud Monitoring
- LitePriced on request
- Graduated Tier — non-orchestrated agentPriced on request
- Graduated Tier — orchestrated agentPriced on request
In their own words
HostedMetrics
HostedMetrics is a hosted and managed monitoring service for servers, applications, services, infrastructure, and IoT metrics. It is built around Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Teams can create or import Grafana dashboards, inspect metrics, and configure alerts. InfluxDB accepts data through StatsD, MQTT, and AWS CloudWatch, while Prometheus supports scrape targets, remote write, PushGateway, and StatsD. Integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, GitHub, CircleCI, Collectd, Slack, Telegram, webhooks, PagerDuty, and VictorOps. Plans start at $79/mo (annual), and every plan includes a 14-day trial without a credit card. Startup provides 5,000 metrics or more, 10-second resolution, two-year retention, unlimited alerts, and four team members. Professional and Business increase allowances; Enterprise has custom pricing. Professional and Business include roles, access auditing, and SSO. Eligible paid customers receive a 99.9% availability commitment.
IBM Cloud Monitoring
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