Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud is a fully managed, composable observability platform built around the popular open-source Grafana visualization tool, providing metrics monitoring, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and alerting as a unified cloud service. Developed by Grafana Labs, the platform builds on the company's ecosystem of open-source tools including Grafana for dashboarding, Prometheus and Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud eliminates the operational overhead of self-hosting these tools while maintaining their flexibility and interoperability. The platform's metrics monitoring is built on a scalable Prometheus-compatible backend that can ingest millions of time series from any source, with long-term storage and global query capabilities. Grafana Cloud's log management, powered by Loki, provides a cost-effective approach to log aggregation that indexes only labels rather than full log text, dramatically reducing storage costs while maintaining powerful search capabilities. The distributed tracing component, built on Tempo, supports OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Zipkin trace formats, allowing teams to follow requests across microservices architectures. Grafana's legendary dashboarding capabilities are at the core of the platform, with thousands of pre-built dashboard templates, a rich library of visualization panels, and a powerful query editor that supports multiple data sources simultaneously. The platform includes Grafana Alerting for unified alerting across metrics and logs, Grafana OnCall for incident response management, and Grafana SLO for service level objective tracking. Grafana Cloud supports over 100 data source plugins and integrates with infrastructure through agents like Grafana Alloy (formerly Grafana Agent). The free tier is remarkably generous, including 10K metrics, 50GB logs, and 50GB traces per month.