Struggling with Grafana Labs Metrics?

Cardinality Limits, Slow Queries, and Escalating Costs?

Cardinality Limits

"We have a formal approval process to add new labels to avoid cost spikes"

— Sr. Software Engineer

"Cardinality is a constant battle. We have a 'do not send' list of labels."

— DevOps Manager

"We had to drop customer-id to keep the queries from timing out"

— SRE

Slow

"We moved to Grafana Labs from Datadog. It's just slow, performance is bad."

— Director of Platform Engineering

"After weeks of tuning, our most important dashboards still time out during incidents."

— Senior DevOps Engineer

"Long-range queries are a gamble."

— Senior Software Engineer

Expensive

"Our bill is tied to active series AND users."

— VP of Engineering

"We got hit with a surprise overage bill. There's no cost predictability."

— FinOps Director

"It's significant engineering overhead for a managed solution. We are always tuning labels and adaptive metrics to keep the costs in control"

— SRE Lead

Relatable? You're not alone. Teams are migrating to modern metrics platforms built from the ground up to solve these exact pain points.

Fantastic Metrics Experience at 3x Cheaper in Minutes

Fully Managed, Blazing Fast Performance, AI-powered

Oodle is a fully managed serverless, drop-in replacement for Prometheus and Grafana, built for scale. It comes with the Grafana UI you love, but supercharged a backend that handles any cardinality, eliminates query timeouts.

Any Cardinality

Send any tag: customer-id, request-id, pod-id
Never drop labels
Unlock granular, high-dimensional analysis

Fast

Blazing-fast queries
Serverless design eliminates bottlenecks
Debug faster with AI-powered root cause insights

Reliable

Fully managed. 99.9% available
No data loss. No visibility gaps
Built for high scale and high cardinality

Cost-effective

3x cheaper than Grafana Cloud.
Simple pricing. No per-user fees
Sublinear pricing as you grow

"Switching to Oodle has been remarkable - dashboards load much faster. It took less than 6 hours to achieve 3x cost reduction."

— CureFit, Healthcare Unicorn

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Oodle AI vs. Grafana Labs Metrics: Feature Deep Dive

Feature Dimension	Oodle AI	Grafana Labs Metrics	Oodle Advantage
Cost Model	Simple: Active Time Series only	Complex: Active Series + Per User + Data Scanned	Oodle's predictable pricing is typically 3x cheaper and doesn't penalize you for adding users.
Cardinality Handling	✅ Natively Supported. No Limits	🟠 Requires Management	Oodle's columnar architecture is built for high cardinality.
Query Performance	✅ Consistently Fast (<3s p99)	🟠 Variable	Oodle's serverless architecture ensures speed. Grafana's performance depends heavily on cardinality and tuning.
Operational Overhead	✅ Zero Operational Overhead	🟠 Some tuning needed	Oodle is fully serverless and managed. Grafana requires cardinality tuning.
Core Architecture	Serverless, S3-Native, Columnar	Microservices (Cortex-based), Tiered	Oodle's modern architecture is the source of its cost and performance advantages.
Per-User Pricing	❌ No per-user fees	✅ Yes	Give access to your entire team without worrying about the bill.
AI-driven Insights	✅ 1-Click Impact Analysis	❌ Manual Exploration	Oodle automatically finds correlations during spikes, reducing MTTR.
UI & Visualization	✅ Grafana UI	✅ Grafana UI	Oodle comes with the Grafana UI you know.
Prometheus Compatibility	✅ 100% Compatible	✅ 100% Compatible	Oodle is a drop-in replacement. Keep your existing alerts and dashboards.
Alerting	✅ PromQL/Grafana Alerting	✅ PromQL/Grafana Alerting	Seamlessly migrate your existing alert rules.
Data Retention	✅ Configurable, Affordable	✅ Configurable	Oodle's S3-native storage makes long-term retention highly cost-effective without performance trade-offs.
Vendor Lock-In	❌ No Lock-In	❌ No Lock-In	Oodle is built on open standards. Easy to get data in, and easy to get it out.

Simple, Predictable Pricing

Oodle's transparent pricing saves teams up to 3x compared to Grafana Cloud.

Monthly Costs in Observability

2,000,000

active time series / hour

per 1k metrics / month^*

$4,000

per month

*Assumptions: 1 data sample every 30 seconds, 90d retention

Frequently Asked Questions

Let's address common questions Grafana users have when considering Oodle AI.

We already use Grafana. Why should we switch?

Great! Oodle comes with the Grafana UI your team already knows and loves. You get to eliminate the performance bottlenecks, cardinality limits, and high costs of Grafana Labs without retraining your team.

How does Oodle actually handle high cardinality better than Grafana Labs?

It comes down to architecture. Mimir, based on Cortex, struggles with high cardinality because its indexing and storage weren't designed for it from day one. Oodle uses a serverless, S3-native columnar datastore. This means we don't rely on massive, complex indexes in memory. Data is organized on S3 in a way that makes high-cardinality queries efficient and cheap, allowing you to query any tag, anytime, without performance degradation.

Is Oodle as scalable and reliable as Grafana Cloud?

Absolutely. Oodle is architected for internet-scale from first principles. Our serverless design automatically scales compute resources to match your ingestion and query load, ensuring 99.9% uptime and <3s p99 latency even with billions of time series.

Migration sounds like a huge project. How difficult is it?

Migration is seamless and risk-free. Oodle is a 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Prometheus. You can configure your existing Prometheus instances to dual-write to both Mimir and Oodle. You can validate performance and migrate dashboards and alerts at your own pace. Most customers are fully migrated in a matter of hours, not months.

We are worried about vendor lock-in.

We are too. That's why Oodle is built on open standards like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana. We make it as easy to migrate off Oodle as it is to migrate on. You own your data, and our compatibility ensures you can always switch back to a self-hosted open-source stack if you choose.

What about our compliance and security needs?

Oodle is enterprise-ready and meets stringent compliance standards. We are SOC 2, ISO, and GDPR certified. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit, with fine-grained RBAC and comprehensive audit logs. You can learn more at our Trust Center.

Start Saving in Minutes

A simple, risk-free path to better performance and lower costs.

Sign up & dual write

Add Oodle as a second remote_write endpoint in prometheus.yml.

Your existing Grafana setup continues. No risk.

Migrate Grafana Dashboards

1-click migration of all dashboards and alerts.

See the speed and reliability for yourself.

Switch Over & Save

Once you're confident, turn off Grafana Cloud.

Watch your bill drop.

We provide white-glove migration support for all customers to ensure a smooth, zero-disruption transition.

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