New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring vs Grafana Mimir

New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring8.8Visit Grafana Mimir8.4Visit

Higher score New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring #4 in Kubernetes Monitoring 8.8/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 0 of 4 features Visit New Relic

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Grafana Mimir #8 in Kubernetes Monitoring 8.4/10 Open source ✓ 0 of 4 features Visit Grafana Mimir

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring fits best

  Teams wanting Kubernetes telemetry with a free entry tier

• Grafana Mimir fits best

  Long-term, multi-tenant Prometheus storage

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Side by side

Feature	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring 8.8/10 Visit ↗	Grafana Mimir 8.4/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.8	8.4
Ranking	#4 in Kubernetes Monitoring	#8 in Kubernetes Monitoring
Best for	Teams wanting Kubernetes telemetry with a free entry tier	Long-term, multi-tenant Prometheus storage
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Free
Starting price	$10/user/mo	Open source
Free plan	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Support	Tickets, Community, Docs	Email, Community, Docs
Integrations	780+ integrations	12 integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring 0/4 · Grafana Mimir 0/4
Control-plane monitoring	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Kubernetes logs	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Distributed tracing	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Managed Kubernetes support	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Alerting channels	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Data retention	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Correlates Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces Free plan includes 100 GB of monthly data ingest Ingests Prometheus and OpenTelemetry telemetry	Prometheus-compatible ingestion with PromQL querying Multi-tenancy, replication, and configurable retention Object-store-backed long-term storage with horizontal scaling
Cons	Standard limits full platform access to five users Standard and Pro charge per user, with data ingest overages Kubernetes Monitoring is part of a broader observability platform	Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure management PromQL is the documented query language; SQL support is false Focused on metrics infrastructure rather than a broader observability suite
Our verdict	New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring brings cluster, workload, container, and application telemetry into New Relic’s observability platform. It is aimed at engineering, DevOps, and platform teams operating Kubernetes environments, including… Read the review →	Grafana Mimir is an open-source, horizontally scalable time-series database for long-term storage of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. It is designed for organizations operating large-scale metrics platforms that need multi-tenancy,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring — where it wins

  • Correlates Kubernetes metrics, events, logs, and traces
  • Free plan includes 100 GB of monthly data ingest
  • Ingests Prometheus and OpenTelemetry telemetry

  Where it doesn't

  • Standard limits full platform access to five users
  • Standard and Pro charge per user, with data ingest overages
  • Kubernetes Monitoring is part of a broader observability platform

• Grafana Mimir — where it wins

  • Prometheus-compatible ingestion with PromQL querying
  • Multi-tenancy, replication, and configurable retention
  • Object-store-backed long-term storage with horizontal scaling

  Where it doesn't

  • Self-hosted deployment requires infrastructure management
  • PromQL is the documented query language; SQL support is false
  • Focused on metrics infrastructure rather than a broader observability suite

• New Relic Kubernetes Monitoring8.8/10 · Free plan

  Kubernetes telemetry spans metrics, events, logs, and traces, with a free entry tier.

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• Grafana Mimir8.4/10 · Open source

  A strong fit for teams building self-hosted, multi-tenant Prometheus infrastructure.

  Visit Grafana MimirFull verdict →