Supabase vs Grafana Cloud

Supabase

Grafana Cloud

Supabase · 24 features

• Authentication — Complete JWT-based auth: passwords, magic links, OTP, OAuth, SSO, phone, MFA.
• Backups & PITR — Automatic daily backups + Point-in-Time Recovery (WAL-G). 14-day default PITR wi…
• Compute Instances — Upgradeable DB compute: Micro, Small, Medium, Large. Affects CPU, RAM, and conne…
• Connection Pooling — Supavisor pooler: Session mode (persistent) and Transaction mode (serverless). D…
• Cron Jobs — Scheduled recurring jobs via pg_cron. Trigger DB functions, edge functions, or H…
• Custom Domains — Configure custom hostname for API endpoints with SSL certificate management.
• Database Webhooks — Async HTTP callbacks on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE via pg_net extension.
• Edge Functions — TypeScript (Deno runtime) functions deployed globally at the edge. Supports secr…
• Full-Text Search — PostgreSQL native FTS: to_tsvector, to_tsquery, GIN indexes, fuzzy matching, wei…
• Image Transformations — On-the-fly resize, crop, quality (20-100), WebP auto-format. Smart CDN caching. …
• Log Drains — Route all stack logs to HTTP, Datadog, Loki, Sentry, S3, OTLP, or Axiom. Up to 2…
• Metrics API — ~200 Prometheus-compatible Postgres metrics. OpenTelemetry export to Datadog, Gr…
• Network Restrictions — CIDR allowlist for database access. Multiple IP ranges supported. Pro+ plan.
• OAuth 2.1 Server — Use Supabase Auth as OAuth provider. Custom Access Token Hooks for claim injecti…
• pgvector — Store and search vector embeddings in Postgres. Supports HNSW/Flat indexes, cosi…
• PostgreSQL Database — Full PostgreSQL per project: SQL editor, table editor, CSV import, 50+ extension…
• PostgreSQL Extensions — 50+ pre-installed extensions: uuid-ossp, pgvector, pg_cron, plv8, pgtap, pg_net,…
• Preview Branches — Ephemeral or persistent DB branches for isolated testing. Git integration, auto-…
• Queues — Exactly-once message queues built on pgmq. Stored in Postgres with configurable …
• Read Replicas — Async read-only replicas in multiple regions. Geo-routing, replication lag monit…
• Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions for DB changes (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE), broadcast, and pr…
• Row Level Security — SQL-native access control; policies auto-filter rows based on auth.uid() / auth.…
• SSL Enforcement — Require TLS for all DB connections. Configurable: required, preferred, disabled.
• Storage — Files, Analytics (Iceberg), and Vector buckets with global CDN (285+ cities) and…

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.