Reduce costs with Adaptive Telemetry

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Optimize your data collection

Observability costs tend to grow with the data you collect, and that growth can be hard to predict. You can reduce the telemetry you pay for but don’t use with Adaptive Telemetry, a service available only in Grafana Cloud.

It uses machine learning to identify data that isn’t referenced in dashboards, alerts, or queries, and recommends ways to reduce it. You review and apply the recommendations:

Nothing is dropped automatically.
You can set exemptions to protect any data you want to keep.

Each tool targets a different signal type but follows the same approach: find what’s unused and recommend a reduction.

Adaptive Metrics: Finds metrics with many unique label combinations (high cardinality) that can be aggregated or dropped
Adaptive Logs: Finds high-volume, low-value log patterns that can be filtered before they reach Grafana Cloud storage
Adaptive Traces: Samples traces intelligently, keeping errors and high-latency events while dropping repetitive healthy traces

Real results from real teams

Property Finder

“Adaptive Telemetry helped us optimize costs without constantly waiting for engineers to fix instrumentation… Adaptive Tracing allowed us to shift trace sampling policies left. That allowed us to control costs while keeping engineers fully in the loop.”
Lovable

“Adaptive Metrics helped us drastically reduce costs while keeping the visibility we needed.”

Compliance and security

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Controls for regulated teams

These capabilities go beyond Grafana OSS. Each one solves a problem you hit as more teams use Grafana: compliance requirements, who can see and change things, how people log in, and how you prove all of it to an auditor.

Compliance certifications: Grafana Cloud is independently audited against SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR, so you inherit those attestations instead of pursuing them yourself.
RBAC (role-based access control): Governs what people can do in the UI. Allows you to control who can see and change what. As more teams share one stack, you set granular, custom permissions at the folder, dashboard, and data source level. Production data and alert rules stay restricted. RBAC goes beyond the basic Viewer, Editor, and Admin roles.
Access policies: Governs what machines and APIs can do. Grant services and tools scoped, token-based access to your Cloud stack (for example letting a collector write metrics but not read logs).
SSO (single sign-on) integration: SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), added so Grafana can connect to enterprise identity systems that the OSS protocols (OAuth/OIDC) don’t cover.
Audit logging: Shows who accessed what and when, so you can prove to an auditor what happened.
Private Data Source Connect (PDC): Connects to data on your private network without opening it up to the internet.
PrivateLink: Sends telemetry from your AWS or Azure environment to Grafana Cloud without the data crossing the public internet. This lowers egress costs and meeting network isolation requirements.
Uptime SLA: Paid plans are backed by a 99.5% uptime SLA and 24/7 expert support from Grafana Labs.

Real results from real teams

Uni Cards

“Most importantly, we no longer have to worry about upgrades, security patches, or compliance issues. In the finance domain, audits are frequent and every tool must be up to date and compliant. Now, Grafana Cloud handles it.”
MIC

“That was a major improvement because it made logs accessible to a much broader audience without requiring direct server access, which also improved our security model.”

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Reduce costs with Adaptive Telemetry

Optimize your data collection

Real results from real teams

Compliance and security

Controls for regulated teams

Real results from real teams