monitoring
Grafana Cloud
Fully-managed observability — Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + Grafana
Hosted stack of Grafana (viz), Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), Pyroscope (profiling), k6 (testing), Faro (RUM), Beyla (eBPF). Self-host or fully-managed.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Always free. 10k metrics series + 50 GB logs/traces/profiles + 3 users + 14-day retention. |
| Self-Hosted (OSS) | Free | Apache 2.0 / AGPL. Run Grafana + Mimir + Loki + Tempo yourself. |
| Pro | $19/mo | $19/mo platform fee + usage-based overages. 10k metrics series + 50 GB included. 13-month metrics retention. |
| Enterprise | $25000/mo | $25,000/year minimum. Custom retention, premium support, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) option. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | opentelemetry native | OTLP ingest for metrics/traces/logs | OpenTelemetry |
| — | prebuilt integrations | 100+ turnkey integrations | Integrations |
| — | prometheus compat | Native (Mimir is Prometheus-compatible) | Prometheus compatibility |
| — | stack components | Grafana (viz) + Mimir (metrics) + Loki (logs) + Tempo (traces) + Pyroscope (profiling) + k6 (synthetic) + Faro (RUM) + Beyla (eBPF) | What's in the stack |
| pro | additional user | $8 per active user | Pro user overage |
| pro | metrics overage | $6.50 per 1K additional billable series | Pro metrics overage |
| pro | support tier | 8×5 email support | Pro support SLA |
| pro | telemetry overage | $0.50/GB logs/traces/profiles | Pro telemetry overage |
Features
- Alloy (OTel agent) — Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector with Grafana additions.
- Application Platform — Infrastructure + k8s + frontend + cloud provider integrations.
- Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation) — Zero-code auto-instrumentation via eBPF for any language.
- Faro (RUM) — Frontend observability — traces, logs, Core Web Vitals.
- Grafana in Azure Marketplace — "Azure Managed Grafana" — Azure-native deployment.
- Grafana Incident — Incident management with Slack-native flows.
- Grafana OnCall — On-call scheduling + incident response (powered by Amixr).
- Grafana SLO — Service level objective tracking + error budget visualization.
- Grafana (visualization) — Dashboards, variables, alerting, annotations over any datasource.
- k6 (synthetic + load testing) — Load testing + synthetic monitoring. JavaScript-based scripts. · docs
- Loki (logs) — Prometheus-inspired log aggregation with LogQL. · docs
- Mimir (metrics) — Horizontally-scalable Prometheus-compatible TSDB. · docs
- Pyroscope (profiling) — Continuous profiling (CPU, memory, etc.). · docs
- Self-Host Option — Full OSS stack deployable in your infra.
- Tempo (traces) — High-scale distributed tracing with TraceQL. · docs
- Unified Alerting — Grafana-native alerting across metrics, logs, traces.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| sdk-fe | Faro Web SDK (RUM) | sdk | 1.x |
| alloy | Grafana Alloy (agent) | cli | 1.x |
| cli-grafana-cli | grafana-cli | cli | 11.x |
| rest-api | Grafana HTTP API | rest | v1 |
| loki-push | Loki Push API | rest | v1 |
| prometheus-remote-write | Prometheus Remote Write | other | — |
| tempo-otlp | Tempo OTLP | other | v1 |
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