Grafana
Grafana offers a comprehensive suite of observability and monitoring tools, including a free forever plan for Grafana Cloud and various specialized backends and services for metrics, logs, traces, and profiling.
Grafana Cloud Free Forever Plan
Grafana offers a free forever plan for its Grafana Cloud service. This plan includes essential monitoring and observability tools, such as 10k series Prometheus metrics, 50GB logs, traces, and profiles. Additionally, it provides 500 VUh for k6 testing, making it accessible for teams to use without incurring costs.
Managed and Self-Managed Services
Grafana provides two primary service options: a fully managed Grafana Cloud service and a self-managed Grafana Enterprise option. The managed service offers convenience and ease of use, while the self-managed option provides more control and customization for businesses with specific monitoring needs.
Monitoring and Observability Tools
Grafana features a suite of tools designed for comprehensive monitoring and observability. This includes Grafana Loki for multi-tenant log aggregation, Grafana Tempo for high-scale distributed tracing, and Grafana Mimir for scalable metrics. Additional tools like Grafana Pyroscope for continuous profiling, Grafana Beyla for eBPF auto-instrumentation, and Grafana Faro for frontend application observability enhance monitoring capabilities.
On-Call Management with Grafana OnCall
Grafana OnCall is included within the Grafana suite to assist with on-call management. This tool helps engineering and operations teams manage incidents and notifications, ensuring efficient response to critical system alerts and minimizing downtime.
Telemetry Data Collection and OpenTelemetry Support
Grafana supports monitoring and telemetry data collection through OpenTelemetry, which is essential for cloud-native environments. Additionally, it provides scalable monitoring for time series data using Graphite and enables comprehensive monitoring of Kubernetes environments with Prometheus.