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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.

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Overall experience with Grafana Cloud

Software Engineer
500M - 1B USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Correlating Metrics, Logs and Traces Simplified But Log Querying Remains Unintuitive”

4.0
Apr 11, 2026
It provides an excellent, unified view of our microservices architecture, but managing the underlying logging and tracing backends is highly complex.
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 Reviews and Ratings

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4.6

(347 Ratings)

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59%
4 Star
39%
3 Star
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4.3

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4.5

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4.4

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  • Software Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Correlating Metrics, Logs and Traces Simplified But Log Querying Remains Unintuitive

    4.0
    Apr 11, 2026
    It provides an excellent, unified view of our microservices architecture, but managing the underlying logging and tracing backends is highly complex.
  • 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.
  • Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Personalized pre-sales advice and adaptation of the solution to specific needs

    4.0
    Feb 19, 2026
    They listened to our expectations and provided excellent pre-sales advice to offer a solution tailored to our needs.
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  • Engineer
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Good product, outstanding community, great value, challenging onboarding

    5.0
    Mar 31, 2026
    great place, environment and food. about the product, quite good actually. the availability information and easy set up makes it a bless
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User Sentiment About Grafana Cloud
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Grafana Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

Seamlessly correlate metrics, logs and traces info in a single pane of glass. Deep, native support for OpenTelemetry standards prevents vendor lock-in. The LGTM stack offers a complete, open-source suite.

Like

open source standards, observability

Like

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

Dislike

Operating and scaling four separate backends requires massive operational discipline. Log querying in Loki feels less intuitive compared to traditional search-based log tools. Unpredictable cost scaling occurs when trace and log ingestion rates suddenly spike.

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.