TL;DR - Grafana
- Open-source visualization for metrics
- Beautiful dashboards from any data source
- Alerting notifies you before users complain
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
Score: 90/100
Pricing Plans
14-day free trialMost Popular
Free
Free
Self-hosted
- Unlimited dashboards
- All visualizations
- Alerting
Cloud Free
Free
10K metrics
- 10K series
- 50GB logs
- 3 users
Cloud Pro
$29/month
Starting
- 50K series
- 100GB logs
- 8 users
About Grafana
Grafana visualizes metrics and logs from any data source. Dashboards that make sense of operational data—the visualization layer for observability stacks.
The query support is universal. Dashboards are flexible. The community shares thousands of templates.
Operations teams building observability use Grafana to visualize data regardless of where it comes from.
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Grafana FAQ
Grafana OSS is completely free. Grafana Cloud has a generous free tier - 10K metrics, 50GB logs. Paid Cloud starts at $29/month.
The visualization layer for your metrics and logs. Connects to Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, creates beautiful dashboards. The de facto standard.
Prometheus collects and stores metrics. Grafana visualizes them. They work together - Prometheus scrapes, Grafana queries and displays.
Like Prometheus but for logs. Doesn't index log content, just labels - way cheaper to run at scale. Pairs naturally with Grafana.
Excellent. kube-prometheus-stack gives you Prometheus + Grafana + pre-built K8s dashboards. Most K8s shops use it.
Grafana is open source and customizable. Datadog is turnkey but expensive. Grafana needs more setup but no vendor lock-in.
Managed Grafana plus Prometheus (Mimir), Loki, and Tempo. Full stack without running infrastructure. Free tier is generous.