What Grafana Cloud provides
Grafana Cloud is a fully managed service with capabilities beyond what self-hosted Grafana offers.
Grafana Labs runs the backend storage and processing for your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. You send data in. Grafana Cloud handles scale, retention, and availability.
Capabilities exclusive to Grafana Cloud
Beyond removing operational work, Grafana Cloud adds capabilities the self-hosted options don’t include:
- Observability solutions: Kubernetes Monitoring, Application Observability, Database Observability, Frontend Observability, and more
- Testing and reliability: Synthetic Monitoring, Grafana Cloud k6 (managed, distributed load testing), service-level objectives (SLOs), and Incident Response and Management
- Cost and troubleshooting: Adaptive Telemetry for managing data volume, plus the advanced Grafana Assistant capabilities that require the managed backend, such as infrastructure memory, hosted Cloud MCP connections, and cross-session incident investigations. The core Assistant also runs on self-hosted OSS and Enterprise. Grafana Cloud is where it becomes the most powerful.
- Service-level agreement (SLA): Grafana Cloud commits to a 99.5% SLA covering the success of requests and autonomous actions (such as alert evaluation and synthetic checks), not simply uptime.
- Instant upgrades: Grafana Labs handles version updates, security patches, and backups automatically.
Best for
Teams who want full observability without managing infrastructure. This is the recommended starting point.
Get started
A free tier lets you start at no cost. You can buy directly or through a cloud marketplace for consolidated billing.
Sign up for freeOther ways to buy
Grafana Cloud is also available through these marketplaces for consolidated billing: