Grafana Alloy vs Tenzir

Grafana Alloy8.9Visit Tenzir8.8Visit

Higher score Grafana Alloy #5 in Telemetry Pipeline Software 8.9/10 Open source ✓ 6 of 6 features Visit Grafana Alloy

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Tenzir #6 in Telemetry Pipeline Software 8.8/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 6 of 6 features Visit Tenzir

• Grafana Alloy fits best

  Grafana and Prometheus ecosystem teams

• Tenzir fits best

  Open-source teams with security-data workflows

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Side by side

Feature	Grafana Alloy 8.9/10 Visit ↗	Tenzir 8.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.8
Ranking	#5 in Telemetry Pipeline Software	#6 in Telemetry Pipeline Software
Best for	Grafana and Prometheus ecosystem teams	Open-source teams with security-data workflows
Pricing model	Free	Free plan + paid
Starting price	Open source	—
Free plan	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux	Web, macOS, Linux
Support	Community, Docs	Community, Docs · 24/7
Integrations	13 integrations	11 integrations
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Grafana Alloy 6/6 · Tenzir 6/6
Logs support	✓	✓
Metrics support	✓	✓
Traces support	✓	✓
Transform rules	✓	✓
Multi-destination routing	✓	✓
Data enrichment	✓	✓
Specs
Deployment model	Self_hosted	Both
Our review
Pros	Collects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in one pipeline Supports programmable transformation, enrichment, filtering, and routing Connects with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and major clouds	Supports OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces TQL handles transformation, enrichment, storage, and routing Open-source deployment with hosted, local, and self-hosted options
Cons	Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure and operational ownership Pipeline configuration uses a programmable expression-based model Its broad feature set may exceed the needs of simple collectors	Community ingress is limited to 1 TB/day Community edge storage is limited to 1 TB Enterprise and Sovereign pricing requires contacting sales
Our verdict	Grafana Alloy is Grafana Labs’ open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It is designed for teams that need to collect metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from infrastructure and applications, then process and forward that… Read the review →	Tenzir is a programmable data pipeline engine for security teams that need to collect, transform, enrich, store, query, and route telemetry. It supports logs, metrics, and traces, including OpenTelemetry ingestion over OTLP/HTTP and… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Grafana Alloy — where it wins

  • Collects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in one pipeline
  • Supports programmable transformation, enrichment, filtering, and routing
  • Connects with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and major clouds

  Where it doesn't

  • Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure and operational ownership
  • Pipeline configuration uses a programmable expression-based model
  • Its broad feature set may exceed the needs of simple collectors

• Tenzir — where it wins

  • Supports OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces
  • TQL handles transformation, enrichment, storage, and routing
  • Open-source deployment with hosted, local, and self-hosted options

  Where it doesn't

  • Community ingress is limited to 1 TB/day
  • Community edge storage is limited to 1 TB
  • Enterprise and Sovereign pricing requires contacting sales

• Grafana Alloy8.9/10 · Open source

  A self-hosted collector for teams routing metrics, logs, traces, and profiles across observability backends.

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• Tenzir8.8/10 · Free plan

  A programmable, open-source telemetry pipeline for security-data workflows.

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