G2 Vendor Directory

Hosted Graphite vs. ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricHosted Graphite

by MetricFire

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

by ServiceNow

Overall rating4.64.6
Review count1320
Ease of use9.19.3
Ease of setup9.69.0
Quality of support9.89.7
Meets requirements9.49.2
NPS69.23076973.684211
Small Business38.5%20.0%
Mid-Market61.5%35.0%
Enterprise0.0%45.0%
Total page views4859
Total LLM citations27238

Hosted Graphite

Great systems are not just built. They are monitored. MetricFire is a managed observability platform that helps teams monitor production systems with clean dashboards and actionable alerts. Delivering signal, not noise. Without the operational burden of self-hosting. MetricFire provides cloud-based server and application monitoring, which scales from hundreds of unique metrics right up to millions of metrics at the Enterprise level.

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Monitoring Ease
  • Ease of Use
  • Cloud Services
  • Easy Integrations
  • Alerting Systems

ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep)

Lightstep’s observability platform is the easiest way for developers and SREs to monitor health and respond to changes in cloud-native applications. Powered by cutting-edge distributed tracing and a groundbreaking metrics database, and built by the team that launched observability at Google, Lightstep’s Change Intelligence provides actionable insights to help teams answer the question “What caused that change? Lightstep empowers reliability and observability managers to minimize the impact of outages, improve software performance, and build org-wide standards to drive adoption and automation.

Pros