An early look at the Grafana Marketplace: Expanding the big tent

As part of our big tent philosophy here at Grafana Labs, we believe you should be able to visualize your data, no matter where it lives. One of the ways we deliver on that commitment is through our vast ecosystem of over 300 Grafana plugins.

This ecosystem includes a mix of plugin types—data sources, apps, and panels—to help you extend Grafana and visualize your data in new and meaningful ways. These plugins come from Grafana Labs, our commercial partners, and our open source community. 

As your observability practice evolves, you often depend on a growing set of plugins to reach your target data in various systems and services. These plugins can become mission-critical, where ongoing support and compatibility is paramount.

To support the continued, sustainable growth of these plugins, we're introducing the Grafana Marketplace—a new platform that allows independent software vendors, systems integrators, and developers in the Grafana community to sell and distribute plugins developed for Grafana. 

Announced during the opening keynote at GrafanaCON 2026, the Grafana Marketplace is currently in a pilot phase. We’re inviting our wide community of users to help us shape this opportunity to make the process of building, maintaining, and scaling high-quality plugins easier. 

Why we’re building the Grafana Marketplace 

The Grafana Marketplace is designed to provide a sustainable path for independent developers and partners to contribute and maintain impactful plugins within the Grafana ecosystem. It builds upon our existing plugin catalog, adding the ability for third-party partners and developers to earn revenue that can further support plugin development. These paid plugins also come with guarantees for updates and support, ensuring that the tools you need stay secure and reliable for the long run. 

While the Grafana Marketplace introduces new paid, commercial plugins, we want to emphasize that community and open source plugins are—and always will be—a core part of Grafana. This marketplace is entirely opt-in. Many developers will continue to offer their plugins for free, and we are committed to supporting both free and paid models to ensure you have the widest range of options to meet your observability needs.

Meet our founding Grafana Marketplace partners

To kick off the pilot phase, we’ve partnered with a select group of organizations who are seeding the Grafana Marketplace with some of the most-requested solutions from the community. 

Crest Data

Crest Data is a data and AI-driven technology solutions provider for enterprises and technology innovators in observability and cybersecurity. 

The team at Crest Data is proud to bring high-performance, in-place querying capabilities for a diverse array of IT and security platforms, including Akamai, Dell PowerScale, Fortinet, Meraki, NetApp ONTAP, Proofpoint, Tableau, Zoom, and Zscaler (ZIA, ZPA), directly to the Grafana ecosystem.

“We are eager to see the Grafana community leverage these plugins to unlock the full potential of their IT and security stacks,” said Malhar Shah, CEO at Crest Data. “We look forward to our continued partnership and support for the ever-evolving Grafana Marketplace.”

Phenisys

Phenisys is an independent observability expert with over 20 years of experience helping enterprises optimize application performance and digital experience. As an early contributor to the Grafana Marketplace, Phenisys brings advanced Microsoft Teams observability capabilities, enabling deep visibility, faster troubleshooting, and improved collaboration performance directly within Grafana.

KensoBI

KensoBI provides a quality intelligence platform that’s purpose-built for manufacturing, bringing a full statistical process control (SPC) suite, 3D CAD visualization, and machine learning capabilities to the Grafana ecosystem.

Explore and give feedback

The Grafana Marketplace is in its early stages, and we want to build it the Grafana Labs way: with your input.

During this pilot phase, you will see "Marketplace" tiles appearing in our existing plugin catalog to indicate that a plugin is part of the marketplace.

To provide feedback on the Grafana Marketplace or register your interest in participation, please fill out this form. You can also reach out at plugins-marketplace@grafana.com. 

Getting involved 

If you are interested in building and listing your plugins in the Grafana Marketplace, there is no better time than now. 

We’re rolling out the Grafana Marketplace Founding Partner Program for partners and developers participating in our pilot program. This is a new initiative designed to help you grow with us from day one. Under the program, eligible developers can qualify for additional support and a reduced marketplace fee. Please apply before September 30, 2026 to be considered for a promotional rate.

We hope you’ll help us shape the Grafana Marketplace into a vibrant ecosystem for building and sharing observability solutions. Stay tuned for more updates soon. 

For more information on this and all the other exciting updates from GrafanaCON 2026, check out our announcements blog post.