Grafana Integration Modes in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring - Cloud Monitor - Alibaba Cloud - Cloud Monitor

Cloud Monitor integrates with Grafana through Hybrid Cloud Monitoring dashboards, which also support self-managed Grafana instances deployed on-premises. Choose an integration method based on your scenario, data scope, and data dimension requirements.

The following table compares the available integration methods.

Category	Enterprise Monitoring Dashboard	Enterprise Monitoring Dashboard (On-premises Grafana)
Scenarios	Supports cloud service monitoring. Supports multi-cloud monitoring. Supports hybrid cloud monitoring. Supports cross-account monitoring.	Supports cloud service monitoring. Supports multi-cloud monitoring. Supports hybrid cloud monitoring. Supports cross-account monitoring.
Monitored data scope	Supports Alibaba Cloud services. Supports on-premises data centers. Supports AWS or Tencent Cloud services.	Supports Alibaba Cloud services. Supports on-premises data centers. Supports AWS or Tencent Cloud services.
Monitoring data dimensions	Supports instance IDs as metric dimensions. For example, `instanceid`. Supports IP addresses, regions, and tags as extended metric dimensions. For example, `ip`, `regionid`, and `tag`.	Supports instance IDs as metric dimensions. For example, `instanceid`. Supports IP addresses, regions, and tags as extended metric dimensions. For example, `ip`, `regionid`, and `tag`.
Data storage duration	Configurable storage duration: 15 to 376 days. For more information, see Create a metric repository.	Configurable storage duration: 15 to 376 days. For more information, see Create a metric repository.
Installation and maintenance costs	No installation or maintenance required.	Requires Grafana installation.
Billing method	Paid service. Billed based on data volume.	Paid service. Billed based on data volume.
Operations	View monitoring data on a Hybrid Cloud Monitoring dashboard	View monitoring data using a self-managed on-premises Grafana instance