Grafana
Unified observability platform combining metrics, logs, and traces with AI-powered analytics for monitoring modern applications and infrastructure
- Vendor
- Grafana Labs
- Also known as
- grafana-labs, grafana
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Grafana?
A comprehensive observability solution that integrates metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources using OpenTelemetry-native standards, providing dashboards, alerting, and incident management capabilities for teams of any size.
Grafana pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.
Free
FreeAlways free tier with access to all Grafana Cloud services at limited usage.
- logs_ingested
- 50 GB/month
- retention_logs
- 14 days
- retention_metrics
- 14 days
- metrics_active_series
- 10k/month
- All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
- Community support
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests
Pro
Self-serve plan with pay-as-you-go usage billing and volume discounts.
- logs_ingested
- 50 GB/month
- retention_logs
- 30 days
- retention_metrics
- 13 months
- metrics_active_series
- 10k/month
- Everything in Free plan
- Pay as you go above free tier with volume discounts
- 8×5 email support
- 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests
- Adaptive Logs and Metrics cost optimization
Enterprise
Contact salesFull-service offering with custom terms, premium support, and deployment flexibility.
- Premium support
- Custom retention policies
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
- As low as $3 per 1k series for metrics at scale
- Custom pricing based on annual commit and volume
What Grafana does
The capabilities that matter for observability tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Metrics
- ✓
- Log management
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Application performance monitoring
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- Alerting
- ✓
- On-call / incident management
- ✓
- Dashboards
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry-native
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (10)
Independently observed- Azure Monitor←
- Prometheus
- Loki
- Elasticsearch
- InfluxDB
- Postgres
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Tempo
- OpenTelemetry
Security & compliance
Independently observed- FEDRAMPactive
- NATSEC100active
- PCI DSSactive
- A-LIGNactive
Known vulnerabilities: 1 (0 in the last 12 months), max severity MODERATE sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Grafana FAQ
Common questions about Grafana, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Grafana?
A cloud-based observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards for monitoring applications, infrastructure, and AI systems. Built on open standards like OpenTelemetry, it includes cost optimization tools, alerting, and incident response features. It is indexed under Observability Tools.
Source: https://grafana.com
Is Grafana free to use?
Grafana is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.05. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://grafana.com
What platforms does Grafana support?
Grafana supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://grafana.com
Can Grafana be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Grafana, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://grafana.com
What does Grafana integrate with?
We have confirmed 9 integrations for Grafana, including Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS and Tempo, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://grafana.com
What security certifications does Grafana have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Grafana. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Grafana not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://trust.grafana.com
Is Grafana open source?
Yes. Grafana is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Where is Grafana available?
Grafana is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://grafana.com
Grafana alternatives
Other observability tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NetdataReal-time infrastructure monitoring with zero configuration and AI-driven analysismedium · 63%
- ChronosphereAI-powered observability platform that reduces noise and accelerates incident detection across cloud-native systemslow · 47%
- GroundcoverAn observability platform that collects logs, metrics, and traces from cloud environments while keeping data local and costs predictable.medium · 73%
- MiddlewareObservability platform for cloud infrastructure and application monitoringmedium · 74%
- Better Stackmedium · 72%
- SematextUnified monitoring and observability platform for APIs, logs, metrics, and real-user experiencelow · 49%
Compare Grafana
Side by side against other observability tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Grafana, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 90 | 0.12 | 10.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.06 | 6.0 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 63 | 0.09 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Developer Q&A activity | 74 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 50 | 0.06 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Security score | 68 | 0.04 | 2.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 45 | 0.06 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Stars | 92 | 0.03 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 24 | 0.08 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 8 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Apm: Yes · Rum: Yes · Logs: Yes · Hosting: both · Metrics: Yes · On call: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | AGPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 99% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| History | 20 items | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
| Fedramp | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 75% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
| Scorecard | 6.8 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=%40grafana%2Fdata&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: MODERATE | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
| Certifications | FEDRAMP, NATSEC100, PCI DSS, A-LIGN | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://grafana.com/security/hall-of-fame/issue_35/ | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60% |
Is Grafana the right choice for you?
Tell us the job, the constraints and what you weigh most, and we will rank Grafana against the rest of the observability tools we index, using the same dated evidence weighted your way.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Is this your product?
This profile was built from public sources without asking you. You can take the badge below and use it anywhere, and you can claim the profile to correct anything we got wrong. Both are free, and neither moves Grafana up or down: nobody can buy rank here, including you.
Take the badge
Live, always current, and free to use on your own site. It shows Grafana's independent score and links back to this profile.
<a href="https://www.vioscale.ai/software/grafana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<img src="https://www.vioscale.ai/badge/software/grafana.svg" alt="Grafana, verified on vioscaleAI" width="330" height="76" loading="lazy" />
</a>Markdown, for a README →
[](https://www.vioscale.ai/software/grafana)Claim the profile
Verify you control the domain, then point us at the pages that state the facts about Grafana and add your own description and media. Free, and it does not change the score.
- Correct anything wrong, with evidence
- Point our crawler at the pages that matter
- Write your own description and add media
Not the owner? How vendor profiles work