Grafana
Open and composable observability and data visualization platform
Founded
2014
Starting Price
$0
Category
Monitoring & Observability
Last updated March 23, 2026
About Grafana
Grafana is a leading open-source observability platform that enables teams to query, visualize, alert on, and understand metrics from any data source. Used by over 25 million users worldwide including companies like Bloomberg, NVIDIA, and Microsoft, it provides customizable dashboards, unified alerting, and seamless integrations with hundreds of data sources for infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, and business intelligence.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Extremely flexible and customizable dashboards with dozens of visualization types
- Massive ecosystem of 200+ data source plugins and community-built integrations
- Generous free tier makes it accessible for small teams and personal projects
- Open-source core ensures transparency, extensibility, and no vendor lock-in
- Unified observability across metrics, logs, and traces in one platform
Key Features
Customizable Dashboards
Build rich, interactive dashboards with drag-and-drop panels, multiple visualization types, and real-time data streaming
Unified Alerting
Create and manage alerts across all your data sources from a single pane with configurable notification channels
200+ Data Source Integrations
Connect to Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, and hundreds more out of the box
Adaptive Telemetry
Machine learning-powered optimization that aggregates unused metrics and reduces log volumes to cut costs by up to 80%
Incident Response Management
End-to-end IRM workflows with on-call management, SLOs, incident tracking, and postmortem analysis
Grafana Loki
Horizontally scalable, cost-effective log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus for efficient log management
Grafana Tempo
High-volume distributed tracing backend that integrates with popular tracing protocols like Jaeger and Zipkin
Pricing
Free Forever
$0
- 10K metrics series
- 50 GB logs
- 50 GB traces
- 3 users
- 14-day retention
Best For
Infrastructure Monitoring
Monitor server health, CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics across cloud and on-premise infrastructure with real-time dashboards
Application Performance Management
Track application latency, error rates, throughput, and service dependencies to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance
DevOps & SRE Workflows
Set up SLOs, manage incidents, coordinate on-call rotations, and conduct postmortems to maintain service reliability
IoT & Sensor Data Visualization
Display real-time data from IoT devices and sensors with time-series dashboards for manufacturing, smart buildings, and environmental monitoring
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