Grafana
Visualise metrics, logs, and traces in unified dashboards — open-source observability with Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo, deployable anywhere or as a managed cloud service.
Swedish open-source observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces.
Grafana is the open-source observability platform originating from Sweden that has become the de facto standard for infrastructure dashboards and metrics visualisation. Built around Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo, it unifies metrics, logs, and traces into a single interface — giving engineering teams the visibility to monitor, alert on, and debug distributed systems at any scale.
Grafana Cloud provides a fully managed version with a free forever plan, while Grafana OSS can be self-hosted on any infrastructure. 700+ data source plugins connect to Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, Datadog, SQL databases, and more — making it the universal visualisation layer for any monitoring stack, regardless of vendor.
Key benefits:
- Unified dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces in a single interface
- Prometheus and Loki — leading open-source metrics collection and log aggregation
- Tempo for distributed tracing and root-cause analysis across microservices
- 700+ data source plugins connecting to any monitoring, database, or cloud system
- Alerting engine with routing, silencing, and escalation to PagerDuty, Slack, and more
- Free forever plan on Grafana Cloud — no credit card required
- Self-hostable on any infrastructure for complete data control
- OpenTelemetry support for vendor-neutral instrumentation standards
Grafana originated as an open-source project by Torkel Ödegaard in Sweden and Grafana Labs operates with European roots. Grafana Cloud is GDPR-compliant, SOC 2 Type II verified, FedRAMP authorised, and PCI DSS compliant. EU data residency is available. The OSS edition can be deployed on EU-owned infrastructure for full sovereignty.
Trusted by Microsoft, NVIDIA, Bloomberg, DHL, and Anthropic — and used by tens of thousands of engineering teams worldwide as the standard observability interface.
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