Grafana Has a Free Observability Platform — Dashboards for Any Data Source

Grafana is the open-source visualization platform — connect any data source, build any dashboard, alert on anything. What You Get for Free Any data source — Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CloudWatch, and 100+ more Beautiful dashboards — drag-and-drop panel editor Alerting — multi-channel alerts (Slack, PagerDuty, email, webhook) Explore — ad-hoc query interface for debugging Annotations — mark events on graphs (deploys, incidents) Variables — template dashboards with dropdowns Plugins — 1,000+ community plugins Grafana Cloud — free tier with 10K metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces Quick Start docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana # Open http://localhost:3000 (admin/admin) Add data source (Prometheus, PostgreSQL, etc.) Create dashboard → Add panel → Write query Set up alerts → Choose notification channel Why Developers Switch from Datadog Datadog charges per host, per metric, per log GB: Free — self-host with unlimited metrics and dashboards Any data — not lock