Grafana Has a Free Observability Stack — Monitor Everything with Beautiful Dashboards

Grafana is the industry-standard open-source platform for monitoring and observability. What You Get for Free Grafana — beautiful dashboards for any data source Prometheus — metrics collection and alerting Loki — log aggregation (like Elasticsearch but 10x cheaper) Tempo — distributed tracing Alloy — unified telemetry collector (replaced Grafana Agent) Alerting — Slack, PagerDuty, email, webhook notifications 200+ data source plugins — PostgreSQL, MySQL, InfluxDB, CloudWatch, and more Grafana Cloud free tier — 10K metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces Quick Start # Docker Compose — full LGTM stack docker compose up -d grafana prometheus loki # Or Grafana Cloud (free): grafana.com/auth/sign-up # No infrastructure to manage, generous free tier Why Teams Choose Grafana DataDog costs $15-23/host/month. New Relic has complex pricing. Grafana: Free self-hosted — no per-host pricing Grafana Cloud free tier — enough for small-to-medium apps Unified platform — metrics, logs, traces in one place Commu