Grafana Labs / grafana.com
AI-enhanced open source observability platform for visualising metrics, logs, and traces with ML anomaly detection, natural language query generation, and AI alert suggestions.
Pricing
Free
Free plan
Yes
Category
Developer Tools
Platforms
2
Free plan
Yes
API access
Yes
Open source
Yes
Platforms
2
Grafana is the world's most widely deployed open source observability dashboarding platform, used by organisations to visualise metrics from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and hundreds of other data sources in a single interface. Its AI features bring ML-powered anomaly detection and natural language querying to the open source standard in monitoring dashboards.
Grafana Machine Learning uses ML models trained on historical metric data to detect anomalies and predict future metric values — alerting when metrics deviate from predicted ranges rather than static thresholds. For metrics with seasonal patterns (daily peaks, weekly rhythms), ML prediction provides more accurate anomaly detection than manual threshold configuration.
Loki AI extends Grafana's log aggregation system (Loki) with AI-powered log pattern analysis — automatically identifying common log patterns, detecting anomalies in log streams, and suggesting queries from natural language descriptions for teams unfamiliar with LogQL query syntax.
Grafana OnCall, the incident management product, integrates with Grafana's alerting to route on-call notifications with AI deduplication and escalation intelligence.
The Grafana ecosystem spans hundreds of data source plugins — connecting observability data from any metric, log, or trace source into unified dashboards. This breadth makes Grafana the common visualisation layer across heterogeneous monitoring stacks.
Grafana AI runs as ml platform software built around data workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web and api, with API access for teams that want to embed it into their own products.
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating Grafana AI.
ML anomaly detection and prediction on metric time series learning historical patterns — more accurate than static threshold alerting for complex seasonal metrics.
Connects to virtually any metric, log, or trace data source making Grafana the universal visualisation layer across heterogeneous monitoring stacks.
Scalable log aggregation with AI pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and natural language LogQL query generation for teams unfamiliar with log query syntax.
Open source Grafana is free. Grafana Cloud free tier (50GB metrics, 50GB logs). Pro $299/month. Enterprise custom.
Model
Open Source
Starting price
Free
Free trial
No
Datadog (covered) provides integrated observability without configuration. New Relic (covered) provides full-stack observability. Kibana provides Elasticsearch-based visualisation. Prometheus provides the time-series database commonly paired with Grafana.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
Grafana Labs
Platforms
Web, API
Deployment
Open Source, SaaS, Self-hosted
Integrations
Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, 400+ plugins, API
Team Collaboration
Yes
Launch Year
2023
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
SOC 2 Type II. GDPR compliant. Open source self-hosted option. Grafana Cloud enterprise data handling agreements.
Grafana Cloud transmits metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Labs infrastructure. Self-hosted Grafana keeps all observability data on customer infrastructure — preferred option for sensitive data.
Editorial Verdict
Grafana is the essential open source observability dashboarding platform for engineering teams wanting unified visualisation across any monitoring source, with ML anomaly detection in Grafana Cloud.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Open source Grafana is free. Grafana Cloud free tier (50GB metrics, 50GB logs). Pro $299/month. Enterprise custom.
Free plan (1 host). Infrastructure from $15/host/month. APM from $31/host/month. Enterprise custom. Publicly traded (DDOG).
SOC 2 Type II. GDPR compliant. Open source self-hosted option. Grafana Cloud enterprise data handling agreements.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. FedRAMP authorised. HIPAA eligible. Enterprise data handling agreements.
Grafana Cloud transmits metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Labs infrastructure. Self-hosted Grafana keeps all observability data on customer infrastructure — preferred option for sensitive data.
Infrastructure metrics, logs, and trace data processed on Datadog's infrastructure. Review data handling policy for sensitive application and log data processing.
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