Grafana k6 vs Inspektor Gadget

Grafana k6

6.2 #64 in Log Management Software

About Grafana k6

Inspektor Gadget

6.3 #11 in eBPF Observability Tools

About Inspektor Gadget
Grafana k6Inspektor Gadget
Free planYesYes
Paid from$19/moFree
PlatformsLinuxapi, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Windows
Free planYes
Paid from19 /mo
Deployment modelself-hostedself-hosted
Kubernetes supportYesYes
Network visibilityYesYes
Application tracingYesYes
Kernel profilingNoYes
Supported operating systemsLinuxLinux; macOS and Windows clients via gadgetctl
OpenTelemetry supportYes
Service mapYes
Tail-based samplingYes
Log retention30 days
Log pipelinesYes
Archive exportYes
Live log tailingYes
Deployment optionsboth
Structured log parsingYes
Load testingYes
Stress testingYes
Browser-based testingYes
Distributed loadYes
API testingYes
Profiling modesboth
Supported languagesC/C++, Go, Rust, Zig, Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, Perl
CPU profilingYes
Memory profilingYes
Thread profilingYes
Core Web VitalsYes
Interaction trackingYes
Geographic breakdownYes
Error correlationYes
Data retention30 days
Pricing metricsessions
Logs supportYes
Metrics supportYes
Traces supportYes
Transform rulesYes
Multi-destination routingYes
Data enrichmentYes
Deploymentself_hosted
SQL supportNo
Retention policiesYes
Horizontal scalingYes
Query languagesPromQL
Ingestion methodsPrometheus remote write; Grafana Agent; Prometheus Agent; OpenTelemetry; Influx; Graphite; Datadog

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