Overview
Grafana Cloud is a full-stack observability platform built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data into a single, AI-powered workspace, eliminating data silos and vendor lock-in. Trusted by everyone from startups to the Fortune 500, it helps engineering teams troubleshoot faster and operate with confidence.
Developers love Grafana for its "plug in, not lock in" philosophy. You can connect your existing tools and data sources without a rip-and-replace, leveraging hundreds of ready-made integrations. The platform is recognized as a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, praised for its completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Key Features
- AI Assistant & Investigations: Use AI to understand production telemetry and accelerate root cause analysis with automated investigations.
- Adaptive Telemetry: Automatically identifies the data worth your attention and aggregates the rest, cutting telemetry costs by up to 80%.
- Agent Observability: Evaluate and improve production AI agents, providing specialized observability for the agentic era.
- Open Standards Native: Built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, ensuring portability and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Use Cases
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Unify telemetry signals into one clear map to troubleshoot incidents faster and maintain system reliability.
- AI Engineering Teams: Monitor and evaluate the performance of production AI agents to ensure they are operating as intended.
- Cost-Conscious Organizations: Use Adaptive Telemetry to optimize data spend and avoid paying for wasted telemetry.
