Grafana Labs / grafana.com
AI-powered open source observability platform providing metrics (Prometheus), logs (Loki), traces (Tempo), and dashboards with AI query assistance, anomaly detection, and incident management.
Pricing
Free
Free plan
Yes
Category
Developer Tools
Platforms
3
Free plan
Yes
API access
Yes
Open source
Yes
Platforms
3
Grafana is the most widely used open source observability platform — providing the visualisation, alerting, and dashboarding layer over Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, and 300+ data sources. Grafana AI features include natural language query generation — describing what to observe in plain language and receiving appropriate PromQL or LogQL queries. Machine Learning in Grafana Cloud applies anomaly detection to time-series metrics without manual threshold configuration. Grafana Incident provides AI-assisted incident response with correlated timelines and AI-drafted post-mortems. The LGTM stack (Loki + Grafana + Tempo + Mimir) provides a complete open source observability suite competing with Datadog on cost. 20 million users including The New York Times, Bloomberg, and eBay validate Grafana as the observability industry standard.
Grafana AI runs as llm assistant software built around data and text 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, cli, 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.
Natural language descriptions generating PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL queries — making Grafana observability data accessible to engineers unfamiliar with query syntax.
Identifies unusual patterns in time-series metrics without manual threshold configuration — adaptive alerting learning normal variation to reduce alert fatigue.
AI-correlated incident timelines and AI-drafted post-mortems from observability data — reducing manual investigation and post-incident documentation work.
Open source self-hosted free. Grafana Cloud free tier (limited). Enterprise from $299/month. Custom enterprise available.
Model
Open Source
Starting price
Free
Free trial
No
Datadog (covered) provides managed observability. New Relic provides cloud observability. Dynatrace provides AIOps observability. Honeycomb provides high-cardinality observability. Prometheus provides open source metrics without Grafana visualisation.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
OpenAI, Grafana
Platforms
Web, CLI, API
Deployment
Open Source, SaaS, Self-hosted
Integrations
Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, 300+ plugins, API
Team Collaboration
Yes
Launch Year
2023
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
Grafana Labs SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. Enterprise data handling agreements. Self-hosted maintains all data on customer infrastructure.
Self-hosted Grafana keeps all telemetry data on customer infrastructure. Grafana Cloud processes metrics, logs, and trace data on Grafana Labs managed infrastructure.
Editorial Verdict
Grafana is the essential AI observability platform for engineering teams wanting open source metrics, logs, and traces with AI query assistance, anomaly detection, and incident management.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Open source self-hosted free. Grafana Cloud free tier (limited). Enterprise from $299/month. Custom enterprise available.
Open source Grafana is free. Grafana Cloud free tier (50GB metrics, 50GB logs). Pro $299/month. Enterprise custom.
Grafana Labs SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. Enterprise data handling agreements. Self-hosted maintains all data on customer infrastructure.
SOC 2 Type II. GDPR compliant. Open source self-hosted option. Grafana Cloud enterprise data handling agreements.
Self-hosted Grafana keeps all telemetry data on customer infrastructure. Grafana Cloud processes metrics, logs, and trace data on Grafana Labs managed infrastructure.
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.
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