# Grafana

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/grafana
- **Category:** Observability Tools
- **Vendor:** Grafana Labs
- **Homepage:** https://grafana.com
- **Also known as:** grafana-labs, grafana
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05T13:32:15.878Z

## Vioscale score

**72.1 / 100**, confidence 62% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.047 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 0.175 | 8.8 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 96 | 0.07 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 92.1 | 0.029 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| integrations | 60.1 | 0.094 | 5.6 | ✓ |
| github_activity | 63.1 | 0.105 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 0 | 0.058 | 0 | - |
| security_posture | 90 | 0.129 | 11.6 | ✓ |
| package_downloads | 65.3 | 0.152 | 9.9 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 0.07 | 7 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 74 | 0.07 | 5.2 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-05, [verify at source](https://grafana.com). Independently observed._

from $0.05/mo · Hybrid · Free tier

> Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Free | Free | ✓ | - |
| Pro | From $19/month + usage with automatic volume discounts | - | monthly |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | annual |

### Free

Always free tier with access to all Grafana Cloud services at limited usage.

**Included limits:** 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.

**Included limits:** 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 sales)

Full-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

## About

Grafana Cloud is an observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, and other telemetry signals into a single platform. Built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, it includes cost optimization, AI-powered analysis, dashboards, alerting, and incident management.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid, On-premise, Self-hosted

## Integrations (50)

_Independently observed._

- Adobe Analytics
- Aerospike
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Apache ActiveMQ
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache CouchDB
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache HBase
- Apache HTTP Server
- Apache Mesos
- Apache Solr
- Apache Spark
- Apache Tomcat
- Apollo Server
- AppDynamics
- Asterisk
- Atlassian Statuspage
- AWS
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Caddy
- Catchpoint
- Ceph
- cert-manager
- Cilium Enterprise
- ClickHouse
- Cloudflare
- CockroachDB
- Confluent Cloud
- Consul
- CoreDNS
- Couchbase
- Databricks
- Datadog
- Discourse
- Dnsmasq
- Docker
- Docker Desktop
- Dynatrace
- Elasticsearch
- Envoy
- etcd
- F5 BIG-IP
- Gitea
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Go
- Google Cloud
- Grafana Agent

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Observability Tools. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Signals** | |
| Metrics | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ |
| Application performance monitoring | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ |
| **Response** | |
| Alerting | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | ✓ |
| **Insight** | |
| Dashboards | ✓ |
| **Standards** | |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ |
| **Deployment** | |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted |

## FAQ

### What is Grafana and what is it used for?

Grafana is an open-source observability and visualization platform that enables teams to monitor, visualize, and explore metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from various data sources. It is widely used for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and real-time dashboarding across DevOps and engineering teams.

_Source: [https://grafana.com/grafana/](https://grafana.com/grafana/)._

### Is Grafana open source and what license does it use?

Yes, Grafana is open source and distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, with some components available under Apache 2.0 exceptions. The source code is publicly available on GitHub and can be freely downloaded, modified, and deployed in self-hosted environments.

_Source: [https://github.com/grafana/grafana](https://github.com/grafana/grafana)._

### What data sources can Grafana integrate with?

Grafana supports integration with a wide range of data sources including time-series databases like Prometheus and CloudWatch, logging platforms like Loki and Elasticsearch, relational and NoSQL databases, and hundreds of third-party tools through its extensible plugin ecosystem. This allows users to consolidate data from multiple systems into unified dashboards without migrating data.

_Source: [https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/)._

### What is Grafana's pricing model?

Grafana offers a tiered pricing model consisting of a free tier with no credit card required, a Pro tier with a base monthly platform fee plus usage-based charges, and an Enterprise tier with custom pricing starting at a minimum annual commitment. The pricing is based on resource consumption such as active series, data volume, and host hours depending on the service used.

_Source: [https://grafana.com/pricing/](https://grafana.com/pricing/)._

### Can Grafana be self-hosted or is it cloud-only?

Grafana offers both deployment options: Grafana Cloud is a managed cloud service, while Grafana also provides self-managed options that organizations can deploy and maintain on their own infrastructure. This flexibility allows teams to choose deployment models based on their infrastructure preferences and compliance requirements.

_Source: [https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/](https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/)._

### What are the main differences between Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise?

Grafana OSS provides core monitoring and visualization capabilities suitable for individuals and smaller teams. Grafana Enterprise adds advanced features such as team-based access management with automatic permission mapping, granular data source-level permissions, and premium support, making it designed for larger organizations with complex access control requirements.

_Source: [https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/introduction/](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/introduction/)._

### What dashboarding and visualization capabilities does Grafana provide?

Grafana includes extensive visualization options such as time-series graphs, heatmaps, histograms, tables, gauges, geomaps, and custom panels through plugins. It also supports data transformations allowing users to rename, summarize, combine, and perform calculations across queries, along with features like annotations for event markup and centralized alerting.

_Source: [https://grafana.com/grafana/](https://grafana.com/grafana/)._


## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 105,843 | [link](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@grafana/data) | 2026-07-31 | 85% (high) |
| adoption.github_stars | 75,904 | [link](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |
| adoption.stackoverflow_questions | 14,000 | [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grafana) | 2026-07-30 | 75% (high) |

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | [link](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pulse) | 2026-08-01 | 65% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 48% (low) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 0.05 | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://trust.grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| security.fedramp | yes | [link](https://trust.grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://trust.grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |
| security.iso27001 | yes | [link](https://trust.grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |
| security.pci | yes | [link](https://trust.grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

### license

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| license.spdx | AGPL-3.0 | [link](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) | 2026-08-01 | 95% (high) |

### content

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Grafana is an open-source observability and visualization platform that enables teams to monitor, visualize, and explore metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from various data sources. It is widely used for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and real-time dashboarding across DevOps and engineering teams.","source":"https://grafana.com/grafana/","question":"What is Grafana and what is it used for?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Yes, Grafana is open source and distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, with some components available under Apache 2.0 exceptions. The source code is publicly available on GitHub and can be freely downloaded, modified, and deployed in self-hosted environments.","source":"https://github.com/grafana/grafana","question":"Is Grafana open source and what license does it use?","confidence":0.98},{"answer":"Grafana supports integration with a wide range of data sources including time-series databases like Prometheus and CloudWatch, logging platforms like Loki and Elasticsearch, relational and NoSQL databases, and hundreds of third-party tools through its extensible plugin ecosystem. This allows users to consolidate data from multiple systems into unified dashboards without migrating data.","source":"https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/","question":"What data sources can Grafana integrate with?","confidence":0.96},{"answer":"Grafana offers a tiered pricing model consisting of a free tier with no credit card required, a Pro tier with a base monthly platform fee plus usage-based charges, and an Enterprise tier with custom pricing starting at a minimum annual commitment. The pricing is based on resource consumption such as active series, data volume, and host hours depending on the service used.","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/","question":"What is Grafana's pricing model?","confidence":0.94},{"answer":"Grafana offers both deployment options: Grafana Cloud is a managed cloud service, while Grafana also provides self-managed options that organizations can deploy and maintain on their own infrastructure. This flexibility allows teams to choose deployment models based on their infrastructure preferences and compliance requirements.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/","question":"Can Grafana be self-hosted or is it cloud-only?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Grafana OSS provides core monitoring and visualization capabilities suitable for individuals and smaller teams. Grafana Enterprise adds advanced features such as team-based access management with automatic permission mapping, granular data source-level permissions, and premium support, making it designed for larger organizations with complex access control requirements.","source":"https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/introduction/","question":"What are the main differences between Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"Grafana includes extensive visualization options such as time-series graphs, heatmaps, histograms, tables, gauges, geomaps, and custom panels through plugins. It also supports data transformations allowing users to rename, summarize, combine, and perform calculations across queries, along with features like annotations for event markup and centralized alerting.","source":"https://grafana.com/grafana/","question":"What dashboarding and visualization capabilities does Grafana provide?","confidence":0.94}]` | [link](https://grafana.com/grafana/) | 2026-07-30 | 95% (high) |

### market

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 50% (medium) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 122 | [link](https://grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | TypeScript | [link](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.grafana.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

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