Lane MonkeyLane Monkey vs Grafana
Looking for a Grafana alternative for CI/CD monitoring?
Grafana is the gold standard for metrics dashboards. But building a CI/CD pipeline view from scratch — configuring data sources, writing queries, arranging panels — takes time your team doesn't have. Lane Monkey gives you that view out of the box.
What Grafana does well
Grafana is an incredible tool — it's the most popular open-source dashboarding platform for a reason. We use it ourselves for infrastructure metrics.
- Incredibly flexible dashboarding — if you can query it, you can visualize it
- Open source with a massive community and thriving plugin ecosystem
- Excellent support for Prometheus, InfluxDB, and dozens of other data sources
- Industry standard for infrastructure and application metrics visualization
Where it falls short for CI/CD monitoring
Grafana excels at visualizing time-series metrics. But CI/CD pipelines aren't time-series data — they're discrete events. Making Grafana work for pipeline monitoring means fighting the tool instead of using it.
- Requires building dashboards from scratch — there’s no out-of-the-box CI/CD pipeline view waiting for you
- Needs data sources configured and maintained — you’ll need Prometheus exporters or custom data pipelines to get CI/CD data in
- Time-series focus doesn’t map naturally to pipeline runs, which are discrete events with pass/fail/running states
- Ongoing maintenance overhead — someone on the team has to own the Grafana instance, update plugins, and fix broken queries
How Lane Monkey is different
Instead of building a CI/CD dashboard from scratch, Lane Monkey gives you one that's ready the moment you connect your tools. No queries, no panels, no maintenance.
Pre-built CI/CD views
No dashboard building required. Connect your tools and your pipeline board is ready instantly. Every lane shows real-time workflow runs.
Zero dashboard configuration
No PromQL queries to write, no panels to arrange, no data sources to configure. Add a lane, pick a repo, done.
Kanban fits pipelines naturally
Pipeline runs are discrete events — pass, fail, running. A Kanban board maps to this perfectly. Time-series graphs don’t.
Zero-config integrations
One PAT per service. No exporters, no agents, no custom data pipelines. Lane Monkey talks directly to GitHub, Vercel, Sentry, and more.
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How Lane Monkey and Grafana stack up for CI/CD pipeline monitoring.
| Feature |  Grafana | Lane Monkey |
|---|---|---|
| Out-of-box CI/CD view | ||
| Setup complexity | High | Minimal |
| Maintenance needed | Ongoing | None |
| Pipeline-native UI | ||
| Drag-and-drop organization | ||
| Hosted option | ||
| Multi-tool aggregation |
Make the switch in under a minute.
Free to start, Pro when your team grows. No dashboards to build, no data sources to configure, no queries to maintain. Just your pipelines, live.