Grafana Cloud Has a Free Tier — Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Dashboards Without Running Infrastructure

Running Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo yourself means managing 4+ servers just to watch your other servers. It is monitoring infrastructure for your infrastructure. Grafana Cloud gives you all of this managed for free — 10,000 metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces. Pre-built dashboards for Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, and more. What You Get for Free 10,000 active metrics — Prometheus-compatible 50 GB logs — Loki-compatible 50 GB traces — Tempo-compatible 500 VUh k6 testing — load testing included 14-day retention — metrics, logs, traces Pre-built dashboards — 100+ templates Alerting — email, Slack, PagerDuty, webhook 3 users — team access Quick Start 1. Sign Up Sign up at grafana.com/cloud , get your stack URL and API key. 2. Send Metrics (Prometheus Remote Write) # prometheus.yml remote_write : - url : https://prometheus-us-central1.grafana.net/api/prom/push basic_auth : username : YOUR_USER_ID password : YOUR_API_KEY 3. Send Metrics (Node.js with OpenTelemetry) npm install @opentelem