Grafana Cloud vs Convex

Grafana Cloud

Convex

Grafana Cloud · 16 features

• Alloy (OTel agent) — Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector with Grafana additions.
• Application Platform — Infrastructure + k8s + frontend + cloud provider integrations.
• Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation) — Zero-code auto-instrumentation via eBPF for any language.
• Faro (RUM) — Frontend observability — traces, logs, Core Web Vitals.
• Grafana in Azure Marketplace — "Azure Managed Grafana" — Azure-native deployment.
• Grafana Incident — Incident management with Slack-native flows.
• Grafana OnCall — On-call scheduling + incident response (powered by Amixr).
• Grafana SLO — Service level objective tracking + error budget visualization.
• Grafana (visualization) — Dashboards, variables, alerting, annotations over any datasource.
• k6 (synthetic + load testing) — Load testing + synthetic monitoring. JavaScript-based scripts.
• Loki (logs) — Prometheus-inspired log aggregation with LogQL.
• Mimir (metrics) — Horizontally-scalable Prometheus-compatible TSDB.
• Pyroscope (profiling) — Continuous profiling (CPU, memory, etc.).
• Self-Host Option — Full OSS stack deployable in your infra.
• Tempo (traces) — High-scale distributed tracing with TraceQL.
• Unified Alerting — Grafana-native alerting across metrics, logs, traces.

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.