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Send data to backends

Open standards: OTel, Prometheus

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Building blocks: telemetry databases (LGTM+)Building blocks: telemetry databases (LGTM+)

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Open standards: OTel, Prometheus

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Your tools / data

Connect your tools and your teams with Grafana plugins. Data source plugins hook into existing data sources via APIs and render the data in real time without requiring you to migrate or ingest your data.

Grafana Cloud data sources dashboard

Your environment

Send your local data to Grafana’s backend for long-term storage, aggregation, and high-performance querying. Forward your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles using existing services deployed into your environment.

Grafana Cloud metrics dashboard

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Visualization

Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

Grafana Cloud metrics dashboard

Application Observability

Performance testing

Easily run cloud-based performance tests to boost release confidence and velocity.

Grafana Cloud k6 performance overview dashboard

Synthetic monitoring

Synthetic monitoring

Proactively monitor the performance of your APIs and web applications from the user’s perspective, testing the availability, health, and quality of your services around the world.

Grafana Cloud synthetic monitoring overview dashboard

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Contextualized Root Cause Analysis

Add an intelligence layer to your telemetry data to better understand the behavior of your applications and services. Uncover root causes quickly as related issues are automatically correlated.

Grafana Cloud asserts intelligent workbench dashboard

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Frontend Observability

Gain clear, actionable insights into the end user experience of web applications with data on real-time frontend health and frontend errors.

Grafana Frontend Observability overview dashboard.

Application Observability

Application Observability

Bring together application telemetry from the frontend and infrastructure layers with native support of both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.

Service overview page in Grafana Cloud Application Observability.

Infrastructure Observability

Infrastructure observability

Gain insights into workloads you haven’t been able to see before with pre-built infrastructure observability solutions.

Kubernetes monitoring dashboard in Grafana Cloud.

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SLO management

Easily create, manage, and scale service level objectives, SLO dashboards, and error budget alerts in Grafana Cloud.

Grafana Cloud SLO dashboard

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Alerting

Create, manage, and take action on your alerts in a single, consolidated view, and improve your team’s ability to identify and resolve issues quickly.

Grafana Cloud alerting dashboard

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On-call management

Reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces that are tailored specifically for engineers.

Grafana Cloud onCall dashboard

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Incident management

Respond to incidents faster by automating the toilsome tasks of incident management, which helps you focus on actually fixing the issue.

Grafana Cloud incident dashboard

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AI insights

AI tools in Grafana Cloud minimize toil and the need for everyone in your organization to have the same deep domain knowledge about your increasingly complex stack.

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Cost management

Manage, control, and optimize your observability spend with a centralized suite of tools in Grafana Cloud.

Grafana Cloud cost management dashboard

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Security and governance

Grafana's security and governance capabilities include robust user authentication and authorization, data source permissions, audit logging, and compliance with industry standards to ensure secure and controlled access to data visualizations and dashboards.

Grafana Cloud security and governance dashboard

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Configuration (as code)

Manage dashboards, datasources, and configurations through declarative JSON or YAML files, enabling version control and automated deployments for consistent and reproducible monitoring environments.

Grafana Cloud configuration as code dashboard

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Loki

Store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure – without worrying about log volumes, costs, or storage limits.

Loki dashboard

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Query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

Grafana dashboard

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Tempo

Understand the flow of requests and data in your software systems and track down issues quickly with this highly scalable, cost-effective trace storage and query engine.

Tempo dashboard

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Mimir

Bring together the raw, unsampled metrics for all your applications and infrastructure, spread around the globe, in one place. Query high-cardinality data with blazing fast PromQL and Graphite queries.

Mimir dashboard

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Pyroscope

Optimize infrastructure spend, simplify debugging, and enhance application performance through continuous profiling.

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Troubleshoot faster

Contextual alerts integrated into Grafana Cloud’s workflows for application, Kubernetes, and infrastructure observability – and more – speed up root cause analysis.

At BlackRock, this “put our telemetry into action and ultimately resolved issues faster,” Head of Observability Olin Gay said at ObservabilityCON.

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Reduce telemetry costs

Using machine learning under the hood, the Adaptive Telemetry features aggregate unused metrics and optimize log volumes.

It not only saves us hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but it’s also a forcing function for us to look closely at our metrics to find additional opportunities for time series reduction and cardinality improvements,” said Mux Senior Engineering Manager Ron Lipke.

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Manage your incident response, all in Grafana Cloud

The IRM solution provides workflows to create alerts and SLOs, manage on-call and incident response, and learn from postmortems – all within the context of your observability stack.

Getting on-call notifications and paging integrated closer to the dashboards and data that help developers diagnose and resolve issues will greatly improve on-call workflows,” said The Trade Desk Staff Software Engineer Nathan Bellowe.

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