Grafana
Visualization and dashboarding platform for metrics, logs, and traces from any data source.
Self-hosted Open source AGPL-3.0 dashboardsmetricsobservability
Pricing
Free (self-hosted OSS). Grafana Cloud free tier, paid from usage.
Grafana is the visualization layer most self-hosted observability stacks are built around — it doesn’t collect data itself, it queries and renders whatever you point it at: Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, Postgres, and dozens more.
Key features
- Datasource-agnostic — works with almost anything
- Alerting built in, unified across datasources
- Huge library of community dashboards to import
- Explore view for ad-hoc log/metric queries
Self-hosted vs. cloud
Self-host the OSS edition for full control, or use Grafana Cloud for a managed stack (Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + Tempo) with a usable free tier before costs kick in.
Quick start
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana
Alternatives
Datadog trades self-hosting for a fully managed, all-in-one observability platform.