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Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is a fully-managed, full-stack observability platform designed to provide comprehensive monitoring solutions for applications, infrastructure, and services.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Unify metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards for complete observability across your stack.
Who should look elsewhere
While a free tier exists, advanced features and higher usage limits require paid plans.
Pros
- +Provides a complete, unified observability solution in one platform.
- +Offers enterprise-grade security and compliance, including FedRAMP High for government.
- +Leverages AI/ML and LLMs to enhance insights and accelerate problem resolution.
- +Fully managed, reducing operational overhead for users.
- +Supports OpenTelemetry for modern application telemetry data ingestion.
Cons
- −While a free tier exists, advanced features and higher usage limits require paid plans.
- −Users accustomed to self-managed Grafana OSS might need to adapt to a managed service model.
Key features
- ✓Unified metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards
- ✓Alerting and incident response
- ✓Advanced integrations
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO)
- ✓Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- ✓Audit logging
- ✓SOC 2 compliance
- ✓FedRAMP High authorized (Grafana Federal Cloud)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | — | month | All Grafana Cloud services, with limited usage; Community support; 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests |
| Pro | $19 | month | Everything in Free plus:; Pay as you go above the Free tier; 8X5 email support |
| Enterprise | $25000 | month | Premium support; Custom retention; Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud) |