IN THE FIELD GUIDE

Grafana

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Grafana Cloud is an AI-powered observability platform built on open standards that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data. It supports full-stack observability and integrates with existing tools without requiring rip-and-replace, offering features like AI assistant, adaptive telemetry for cost optimization, and incident response management.

THE PRODUCT, BEYOND THE PITCH

Editorially reviewed · Sources checked Sep 23, 2026

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A good fit for

Personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups
Companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements needing premium support and custom retention

Know the limitations

Free tier has limited usage and 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and performance tests
Enterprise plan requires a minimum spend commitment of $25,000 per year

What you can do

Observing applications, services, infrastructure, and user experience together to understand system behavior
Managing incident lifecycle and accelerating incident investigations and root cause analysis with AI assistant

Features

AI-powered assistant for understanding production telemetry and accelerating root cause analysis
Adaptive Telemetry suite that identifies important data and aggregates the rest to reduce telemetry costs by up to 80%
Unified telemetry signals into one clear map to break down data silos and troubleshoot faster
Hundreds of plugins and integrations ready to extend your stack, built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Integrations

Not confirmed yet.

Platforms & data export

Not confirmed yet.

THE COST FOR YOUR TEAM

Go beyond the starting price.

Published plan prices for your team size and usage. Results update as you type. Taxes, currency conversion and unlisted add-ons are excluded, and anything the source did not state is called out rather than guessed.

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Plan costs based on your requirements
Tool / plan	Monthly	Per year	What this assumes
Grafana FreeCheapest fit Flat subscription	$0.00	$0.00	Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider.
Grafana Pro Flat subscription	$19.00	$228.00	· Published as a starting price. The final cost can be higher depending on options. Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Published as a starting price. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider.
Grafana Enterprise Flat subscription	$2,083.33	$25,000.00	· Only annual billing is published; shown as the monthly equivalent of the annual price. Paying month to month may cost more. · Published as a starting price. The final cost can be higher depending on options. Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Published as a starting price. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider.

A practical workflow

Onboard your system in minutes with 100+ integrations and accelerate investigations with the AI assistant
Get started without needing to install, maintain, or scale backend infrastructure
Use the free tier to evaluate observability as a system, not just individual capabilities

Based on the sources below. Editorial review does not imply hands-on product testing.

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New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates telemetry across the entire stack to isolate root causes and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). It offers a complete observability toolkit including application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, AI and agentic monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management, and security features.

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