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Grafana Cloud

byGrafana Labs
in
4.6
Market Presence: Observability Platforms, Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Overview

Product Information on Grafana Cloud

Updated 4th March 2024

What is Grafana Cloud?

Grafana Cloud is a fully managed, open and composable cloud-hosted platform that enables teams to accomplish their observability goals faster and easier. Powered by Grafana Labs' open source projects – Grafana for visualization, Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, and Tempo for traces – it supports 100+ data sources and 50+ curated infrastructure monitoring integrations to help organizations unify disparate data in Grafana dashboards. With the ability to natively correlate between metrics, logs, and traces, users can speed up root cause analysis and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). The platform is highly available, fast, and cost-efficient, supporting multi-tenancy at massive scale. It also offers turnkey solutions for incident response and management (IRM), load testing, Kubernetes monitoring, application observability, frontend observability, continuous profiling, and more, making it a comprehensive observability stack.

Grafana Cloud Pricing

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Overall experience with Grafana Cloud

It Associate
1B - 3B USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Grafana Excels at Visualizing Multiple Data Sources Despite Learning Curve Challenges”

4.0
Mar 24, 2026
Grafana is a powerful and visually rich dashboarding tool that shines when it comes to combining multiple data sources into a single cohesive view. For day-to-day usage—dashboard viewing, filtering, quick analysis, and alert monitoring - this tool is excellent. With a slightly steep learning curve for advanced features, it remains one of the most approachable and visually appealing observability tool.
SRE
250M - 500M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Product Roadmap Incorporates Open Source Standards That Users Appreciate”

3.0
Oct 14, 2025
good product roadmap that leverages open source standards

About Company

Company Description

Updated 5th September 2025

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 5,000 Grafana Labs customers and more than 25 million users of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as a rich ecosystem of data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security.

Company Details

Updated 5th September 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2014
Head office location
United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.grafana.com

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Grafana Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

Grafana's clean, intuitive dashboards make it incredibly easy to visualize data and uncover insights quickly. Its flexibility, rich visualization options, and seamless integration with multiple data sources are what I like the most, especially fetching data. from servicenow.

Like

open source standards, observability

Like

Availability, pricing, built-in integrations, open-source based model.

Dislike

Grafana can feel complex for new users, especially when working with advanced queries, variables, or panel configuration. The learning curve and inconsistent behavior across different data sources are what I dislike the most.

Dislike

cost

Dislike

The lack of ingestion/billing safeguards when using the Cloud Pro, pay-as-you-go model. It should be great to be able to tell Grafana to just shut down ingestion when global spend goes above X (quota/budget). Usage alerts are nice, but not enough.

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Grafana Cloud Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(375 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
61%
4 Star
37%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • It Associate
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
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    Grafana Excels at Visualizing Multiple Data Sources Despite Learning Curve Challenges

    4.0
    Mar 24, 2026
    Grafana is a powerful and visually rich dashboarding tool that shines when it comes to combining multiple data sources into a single cohesive view. For day-to-day usage—dashboard viewing, filtering, quick analysis, and alert monitoring - this tool is excellent. With a slightly steep learning curve for advanced features, it remains one of the most approachable and visually appealing observability tool.
  • Engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Managed Grafana Cloud Offers Convenience But Raises Concerns Over Billing Controls

    5.0
    Feb 19, 2026
    It's great to be able to quickly onboard on an LGTM, managed solution that is Grafana Cloud with exclusive products (SM, IRM, Frontend Observability...) without having to worry about deployments, maintenance. In fact, having a remote, managed tenant for Observability ensures signals and alerts will always be functioning in-case of an outage on our side.
  • Engineer
    <50M USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Cloud-native observability platform with powerful dashboards and insights.

    5.0
    Feb 4, 2026
    Very powerful observability platform, delivering clear insights across metrics, logs and traces. The visuals and options to analyze data are well developed and well maintained.
  • SENIOR CAMPAIGN SPECIALIST
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Grafana Enables Real-Time Tracking of Campaign Clicks and Geographic Integration

    5.0
    Jan 8, 2026
    I used Grafana to track user activity post campaign deployments to understand clicks and signals. This helps my team understand whether a recent integration of a new geo into an existing email has worked and there is a traffic increase based on realtime data
  • Engineering Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Low Operational Overhead Noted but Concerns Raised Over Cost Versus Value

    4.0
    Mar 4, 2026
    It's been valuable for monitoring our self-hosted monitoring infra with no overhead. It's been reliable and alerting has worked. It's been low maintenance and provides us with extra reliability.
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