| Price from | $2,500/mo | $1,500/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Telemetry Pipeline Software | 7.4 (#21) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Maker | The maker identifies three co-founders: Ronit Belson, Erez Rusovsky, and Amir Jakoby. | Telegraf is built by InfluxData, which says it was founded in 2012. |
| Purpose | Sawmills is an agentic telemetry management platform for reducing observability costs, improving telemetry quality, and protecting reliability. | Telegraf is an open source agent for collecting metrics from infrastructure, applications, and devices. |
| Support | Every subscription includes a dedicated customer success team for support. | Enterprise Support offers Gold-level SLAs, expert troubleshooting for Telegraf Controller and official plugins, and guaranteed response times. |