Metrics for modern software
Grafana Labs offers a simple and scalable solution for unifying your metrics across multiple systems, enabling both real-time and historical analysis with Grafana Cloud Metrics or Grafana Enterprise Metrics.
Why use Grafana for metrics?
Global, fast queries
- Query high cardinality data with blazing fast PromQL, Graphite, and Datadog queries.
- Merge query results from metric clusters running in different data centers or geographies to create a global view of your data.
- Get best-in-class query performance so you can quickly create real-time dashboards that can be shared throughout your organization.
Long-term storage that’s actually cost effective
- Easily scale to hundreds of millions of active metrics series at millions of data points per second.
- Durably store your Prometheus and Graphite data for trend analysis and capacity planning.
- Data is automatically and seamlessly shared among replicas, so you can grow and shrink the cluster on demand.
Simple and reliable
- With strict service-level agreements built in a fully HA manner, you can be confident that even at scale, or in case of an outage in your cluster, your monitoring system is up and alerting you.
- Take advantage of a fully assembled and configured monitoring stack out-of-the-box, so there’s no need to build systems from open source components.
- Rest assured that Grafana Metrics is fully supported and operated by the developers and maintainers behind Prometheus and Graphite.
Use the same tools you love
- Grafana dashboards Integrate with your existing Grafana dashboards to provide an easy-to-use UI to manage your clusters and tenants.
- Prometheus ecosystem Grafana Metrics can integrate with your existing Prometheus ecosystem, so there’s no need to manually edit and manage configuration files. View and edit your Prometheus-style alerting rules all in one place.
- Kubernetes clusters Integrates easily with existing Kubernetes clusters.
- Graphite Integrates with Graphite-based data ingestion and querying, so you can either modernize your existing Graphite systems or transition to Prometheus.
- Datadog Explore, visualize, query, and alert on your Datadog metrics in the Grafana UI with Grafana Cloud.
- Out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts for popular infrastructure components like MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcache, and more.
“Our engineers used to spend too much time fighting fires caused by our legacy platform. Hosted Prometheus and Grafana on Grafana Cloud was a huge win to give everyone their time back."
Patrick O’Brien, Lead Staff Software Engineer, SRE
Choose the version that works best for you
To use Grafana Metrics, you have two options:Cloud Metrics
Offered as a fully managed service, Grafana Cloud Metrics is a super fast and highly available Prometheus- and Graphite- compatible backend.
Managed and administered by Grafana Labs with free and paid options for individuals, teams, and large enterprises.
Includes a robust free tier with access to 10k metrics.
Enterprise Metrics
A self-managed Prometheus service that is seamless to use, simple to operate/maintain, and supported by Grafana Labs.
For organizations that have specific privacy or security requirements and need a self-managed environment.
Powerful open source metrics projects supported by Grafana Labs
Grafana Mimir
Grafana Mimir is a long-term storage for Prometheus metrics that scales to 1 billion active series and beyond.
Prometheus
Prometheus is the de facto standard monitoring system for cloud native applications and infrastructure.
Scaling and unifying your metrics
- Achieve maximum potential observability since metric limits are no longer a barrier.
- Save money by eliminating the overhead of a monitoring infrastructure, both in resources and people time.
- Easily store application and infrastructure data in one centralized cluster, or across multiple clusters, without needing a dedicated team.
Easily monitor and alert on your Kubernetes clusters
Easily monitor and alert on core Kubernetes cluster metrics using the Grafana Agent, our lightweight observability data collector optimized for sending metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Cloud.
- Get started in minutes with preconfigured scrape jobs and leverage out-of-the-box dashboards to monitor and alert on metrics like network bandwidth, CPU usage, memory usage, disk I/O, and much more.
- Drill down into resource usage by cluster, namespace, pod, and container.
- Use multi-cluster views to seamlessly move between clusters and compare behavior.
- Monitor and alert on persistent volume and kubelet metrics.
Offload the burden of managing your Graphite deployment
Upgrade to a fully hosted backend where we will maintain, upgrade, and run your Graphite environment for you.
- Easily transition from Graphite to Prometheus with Grafana Metrics. Our system uses the the same format, the same engine, and the same backend for both, meaning there’s no learning curve for you and your team.
- Highly scalable Graphite metrics storage.
- Custom long-term retention per original schemas (default 24 months).
- Collect 100% of metrics at full resolution. No need to downsample or aggregate unless you want to.
Explore, visualize, query, and alert on your Datadog metrics in Grafana Cloud
Send metrics from Datadog agents directly to Grafana with Grafana Cloud, removing the need to rewrite instrumentation code.
- Host Datadog metrics using an easy-to-use Datadog-compliant API.
- Query metrics stored using the Datadog-style query language.
- One-click import to get your Datadog dashboards.
Correlate your data
Understanding all relevant data — and the relationships between them — is important for root-causing incidents as quickly as possible and identifying the real source of unexpected system behavior. Grafana allows teams to seamlessly visualize and move among all of their data, all in one place.
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