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.