About
Grafana Cloud is a managed observability platform that combines metrics, logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests, dashboards, and alerting in a single hosted service. It supports OpenTelemetry and includes application observability, Kubernetes monitoring, synthetic monitoring, incident response, and AI-assisted onboarding and investigation workflows.
The free tier is intended for personal projects, early-stage startups, and evaluation use. The pricing page states that the free plan is always available at $0 and includes usage limits, community support, and 14 days of retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests.
- Always-available $0 free plan
- Usage limits on all services
- 14-day data retention
- Metrics, logs, traces, profiles
- k6 performance test retention
- OpenTelemetry-native observability
- Community support included
Free Tier Value
Grafana Cloud Free is explicitly described as a no-cost, fully managed observability platform with no credit card required and no charges ever, but it also has usage limits and 14-day retention, so it is a capped free tier rather than unbounded always-free. The page does not provide concrete quota numbers for the free limits, so per instructions the free_tier_value_usd_per_month must be null rather than estimated. Feature parity is high because the page says the free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services and the same experience/features as paid plans, though paid plans add unlimited access, longer retention, and support.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to all Grafana Cloud services, with usage limits.
- Adaptive Telemetry, AI Assistant, and much more.
- Community support.
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests.
- No credit card required.
- No charges ever.
See Grafana Cloud pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
pro
- metrics retention
- 13 months
- logs retention
- 30 days
- traces retention
- 30 days
- profiles retention
- 30 days
- k6 performance tests retention
- 30 days
- Unlimited access to all Grafana Cloud services above the free tier
- Adaptive Telemetry
- AI Assistant
- 8x5 email support
- 13 months retention for metrics
- 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests
enterprise
- annual spend commit
- $25,000/year
- Premium support
- Custom retention
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
Pricing extracted from Grafana Cloud's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
