My own personal comparison would be to how many Helm charts for various Kubernetes resources bundle Prometheus-metrics endpoint resources, and Grafana-dashboard definition resources alongside them; such that if you're using the k8s-resource-aware Grafana (e.g. the one in the Prometheus operator), it'll pick those declared dashboards up automatically and show you the metrics for the thing you're running.

In this case, the "Helm chart" is an app like Wordpress that runs DB migrations; the "monitoring resources" it deploys are the SQL-comment microformat data created by those migrations; and "Grafana" here is the DB admin panel, taught to look for that data.