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Vendor lock-in

Vendor lock-in

With many observability vendors, moving away means starting from scratch:

  • Dashboards stored in proprietary formats
  • Queries written in vendor-specific languages
  • Data locked behind APIs you don’t control

The difference with Grafana Cloud

Built on open-source and open-standard foundations, any switching is a migration, not a rewrite. Your dashboards, alert rules, and instrumentation move with you, because they’re built on open formats, not locked to our platform.

  • Dashboard formats: Cloud uses the same dashboards and alert rules as open source Grafana.
  • Query languages: Cloud uses the open query languages of Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo: PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL.
  • Standard APIs: Cloud exposes open APIs (Prometheus remote write, OTLP, and others) so your tooling isn’t tied to a proprietary integration layer.

Real results from real teams

  • Erste Digital

    “We wanted to have a vendor neutral instrumentation and therefore we chose Grafana Cloud.”

  • Optro

    Grafana Cloud’s native support for OpenTelemetry would allow the team to future-proof their stack. Open standards offered greater flexibility around data collection and integration.

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When teams evaluate a managed platform, one question comes up early: what if we need to leave? With many observability vendors, the answer isn’t encouraging: proprietary dashboards, vendor-specific query languages, and data locked behind APIs you don’t control.

Grafana Cloud is built on open standards. Your dashboards, alert rules, and telemetry all use open formats and open APIs, so switching is a migration, not a rewrite.

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