Grafana Cloud

Platform

Hosted Grafana with managed Prometheus metrics, Loki logs and Tempo traces

Price: Free tier, then paid
Access: Access policy token

About

Managed observability stack built on open-source Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, with an OTLP endpoint for OpenTelemetry data. Stacks run in 20+ cloud regions and cannot move after creation; the same AGPL-licensed stack can be self-hosted instead.

What you can do with it

Send OpenTelemetry metrics, logs and traces to one OTLP endpoint
Build dashboards and alert rules over Prometheus metrics and Loki logs
Run synthetic uptime checks and route alerts to on-call schedules

Get started

Create a Grafana Cloud stack in the region you need
Open the stack's OpenTelemetry tile and generate a token
Install the OpenTelemetry SDK for your language

Example

# npm install --save @opentelemetry/api @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node
# Endpoint and headers come from your stack's OpenTelemetry tile
OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER="otlp" \
OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER="otlp" \
OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER="otlp" \
OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES="service.name=shoppingcart" \
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="$GRAFANA_OTLP_ENDPOINT" \
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="$GRAFANA_OTLP_HEADERS" \
NODE_OPTIONS="--require @opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node/register" \
node app.js

Details

Hosting: Hosted service, Self-hosted
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript
MCP server: Remote