Who this journey is for

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Who this journey is for

If you’ve had questions about the difference between Grafana OSS, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Cloud, and cloud provider marketplace options, this course is for you. It covers:

Section	Focus
The Grafana landscape	What options exist and how they differ at a high level
Understand your options	What each option requires, provides, and costs, then a decision framework and your next step

Estimated time

15-20 minutes

The Grafana landscape

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Three deployment options

Grafana has three primary deployment options, ranging from “you run everything” to “Grafana Labs runs everything.”

Option	Who runs it	Cost
Grafana OSS	You run it. Free, open source software (OSS) that you install on your own servers.	Free
Grafana Enterprise	You run it. Adds commercial features and support on top of the open source foundation.	Paid license
Grafana Cloud	Grafana Labs runs it. A platform for visualization, monitoring, and support, run entirely by Grafana Labs.	Free tier available, paid plans for more

Additional use options

You can also purchase Grafana Cloud through the AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud marketplace for consolidated billing, or use a separate cloud-provider dashboarding service like Amazon Managed Grafana or Azure Managed Grafana.

Journey overview on Grafana Labs

Who this journey is for