Grafana Cloud
The open and composable observability platform.
Overview
Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform offered by Grafana Labs, the company behind the popular open-source Grafana visualization tool. It provides a scalable, high-performance, and integrated solution for metrics, logs, and traces, built around Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo. Grafana Cloud is designed to be easy to use, with a generous free tier, and it allows teams to unify their observability data without the overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure.
✨ Key Features
- Managed Grafana for visualization
- Managed Prometheus for metrics (Grafana Metrics)
- Managed Loki for logs (Grafana Logs)
- Managed Tempo for traces (Grafana Traces)
- Synthetic Monitoring
- OnCall for incident management
- Machine Learning for anomaly detection
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Built on popular open-source projects (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
- Highly composable and flexible
- Generous and capable free tier
Unique Value: Provides a fully managed, high-performance observability stack based on the best-in-class open-source tools that developers already know and love.
🎯 Use Cases (5)
✅ Best For
- Creating unified dashboards from multiple data sources
- Managed monitoring for teams already using Prometheus and Grafana
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Users looking for a single, all-in-one agent-based solution
- Teams that prefer a less hands-on, more automated root cause analysis experience
🏆 Alternatives
Offers a more open and flexible approach compared to proprietary, all-in-one platforms, which is appealing to teams that want to avoid vendor lock-in and leverage open standards.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Advanced tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: 10k series for metrics, 50GB of logs, 50GB of traces, 3 users
📊 Market Info
Customers: 2000+
Total Funding: $535.2M
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