Grafana Cloud

Managed Prometheus, Loki and Tempo

Free tier + paidMonitoring & error trackinggrafana.com

What it is

Hosted Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope with Grafana dashboards, synthetic monitoring and alerting on top. The free tier is unusually generous on volume at 50GB each of logs and traces per month. The same components are open source, so you can migrate to a fully self-hosted stack later.

Why it earns a slot

Fifty free gigabytes of logs plus a credible self-hosted escape hatch means you are never locked in on price, and OpenTelemetry ingest works out of the box.

Know before you commit

The free tier caps you at 3 active users and 14-day retention. Metrics bill by active series, so high-cardinality Prometheus labels inflate the bill the same way they do on Datadog.

Getting started

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

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Pricing snapshot

Free: 10K metric series, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 50GB profiles, 14-day retention, 3 users. Pro $19/mo platform fee plus $6.50 per 1K series and $8 per active user.

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Evaluate Grafana Cloud (https://grafana.com/products/cloud/) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Managed Prometheus, Loki and Tempo. Hosted Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope with Grafana dashboards, synthetic monitoring and alerting on top. The free tier is unusually generous on volume at 50GB each of logs and traces per month. The same components are open source, so you can migrate to a fully self-hosted stack later.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Fifty free gigabytes of logs plus a credible self-hosted escape hatch means you are never locked in on price, and OpenTelemetry ingest works out of the box.
Watch out for: The free tier caps you at 3 active users and 14-day retention. Metrics bill by active series, so high-cardinality Prometheus labels inflate the bill the same way they do on Datadog.
Pricing: Free: 10K metric series, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 50GB profiles, 14-day retention, 3 users. Pro $19/mo platform fee plus $6.50 per 1K series and $8 per active user.
Setup: docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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How Grafana Cloud sits against the rest of the atlas — swaps, companions and the tools builders actually save alongside it.

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