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
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.