Grafana Cloud is the right answer when the work is dashboards. Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, Tempo for traces, Pyroscope for profiles, all glued together by Grafana itself. The dashboards are excellent, the PromQL story is unmatched, and the open-source pieces are real.
Cuitty does not try to out-Grafana Grafana. It is a different surface: ten admin modules with a shared protocol, a shared identity story, an audit chain, an agent layer. If the question is “show me a graph,” Grafana wins. If the question is “let an agent rotate a secret, gated by SpiceDB, with a notarized audit entry,” that is what Cuitty is for.
Feature parity
✓ supported · ~ partial · ✗ not supported. Notes link out to the relevant docs where useful.
| Capability | Cuitty | Grafana Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hostable | Yes Compose, Helm, single binary. | Yes Grafana OSS + Loki/Mimir/Tempo OSS. |
| Managed SaaS | Yes Cuitty Cloud. | Yes Grafana Cloud. |
| Dashboards + PromQL | Partial
Partial
Per-module views; no general PromQL workbench. | Yes Best-in-class. |
| Logs (LogQL / OTLP) | Yes OTLP-native ingest. | Yes Loki + LogQL. |
| Tracing | Partial
Partial
OTLP pass-through, no Tempo-class UI. | Yes Tempo. |
| Continuous profiling | No | Yes Pyroscope. |
| Identity + RBAC | Yes BetterAuth + SpiceDB across modules. | Partial
Partial
Per-stack auth; not modular fine-grained. |
| Audit chain (notarized) | Yes | No Audit logs exist; not notarized. |
| Secrets management | Yes Built-in module with rotation. | No Out of scope. |
| Deploys / GitOps surface | Yes Native deploys module. | No Out of scope. |
| Agent-native protocol | Yes | Partial
Partial
HTTP API exists; not designed for agents. |
When to choose Grafana Cloud
- Dashboards and queryable telemetry are the primary deliverable.
- Your team already speaks PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL fluently.
- You want best-in-class continuous profiling with Pyroscope.
- Auth, audit, secrets, and deploys are owned by other tools and you are not consolidating.
When to choose Cuitty
- You want one shell over auth, audit, secrets, costs, deploys, and logs — not just dashboards.
- You need fine-grained, module-aware RBAC via SpiceDB.
- You want a notarized audit chain across every administrative action.
- You are designing surfaces for AI agents, not only humans.
Migration path
Mirror Loki to Cuitty for incremental migration
Run both stacks in parallel by tee-ing your log pipeline. Move read traffic over once Cuitty's dashboards cover your top-ten queries.
clients:
- url: https://logs-prod.grafana.net/loki/api/v1/push
tenant_id: ${GRAFANA_TENANT}
- url: https://cuitty.example.com/v1/logs/loki
headers:
Authorization: "Bearer ${CUITTY_TOKEN}"
X-Cuitty-Workspace: "prod"Verdict
Pick Grafana Cloud if dashboards and PromQL are the product. Pick Cuitty if the product is the surface around the data — auth, audit, deploys, secrets, costs.