Data and tools everywhere
- Metrics, logs, traces, and profiles live in different vendors, regions, and stacks
- Investigations require switching tools mid-incident
- Each new source adds another query language and tool to learn
- Some data can’t leave your network because of security, compliance, or data-residency rules
Solutions
You can send data to Grafana Cloud or connect to it where it lives. Many teams use both.
- Send data to Cloud. Send your telemetry to managed backends. Grafana can perform storage and scaling for you. Your options include:
- Grafana Alloy, a vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry Collector distribution
- The OpenTelemetry-native OTLP endpoint for OTel SDKs and collectors
- Existing agents and formats, including Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, and Datadog for metrics and Jaeger and Zipkin for traces
- Integrations that set up collection plus preconfigured dashboards and alerts for common technologies, including operating systems, databases, web servers, and cloud services, in minutes
- Connect to data where it lives. Keep your data in its existing location.
- Query existing systems through data source plugins
- Reach sources that can’t leave your network with Private Data Source Connect, which keeps them off the public internet