Grafana Cloud free tier includes Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 24 alternatives in Monitoring.
Subtypes in Monitoring: metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product; log_management — ingests, stores and queries log lines; the line is the stored unit and retention is a priced dimension; apm_traces — instruments application code and reports per-request latency, throughput and spans across services. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, where it says: “Fully-managed, easy-to-use, highly-scalable, and cost-effective distributed tracing backend.” How we use this.
Grafana Cloud's free tier offers Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support… We rate it stable. 2 recorded changes narrowed the terms, the most recent on 2026-04-20. Best for monitoring workloads — 24 alternatives available.
Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support. 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces are included. Pro costs $19 a month plus usage, includes 10k active series and 50 GB each of logs and traces, and bills usage above them. Pro keeps metrics for 13 months and logs, traces, profiles and k6 tests for 30 days.
We read that on 2026-11-03 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names Grafana Cloud as "grafana cloud" and states "$19" and "10k active series per month" and "50 GB ingested per month". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
free Always free Always $0 Perfect for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups. No charges ever. Start free Benefits: All Grafana Cloud services, with usage limits Adaptive Telemetry, AI Assistant, and much more Community support 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
How Grafana Cloud compares against every one of the 24 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Grafana Cloud | Free | stable |
| Axiom | Personal Observability platform — 500 GB ingest/month, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention, 2 datasets, 1 user, 10 GB-hrs/mo query compute, 256 fields/dataset, 3 monitors, Email/Discord notifiers only |
unrated |
| 360 Monitoring | Lite Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check interval, 24-hour data retention, email alerts |
stable |
| BetterStack | Free 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder |
stable |
| Simple Observability | Free Powerful server monitoring in a unified platform for metrics and logs, with no setup complexity. Free for one server. |
stable |
| Middleware.io | Free Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM, synthetics, database, serverless), 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, 14-day data retention, unlimited users |
stable |
| Datadog | Free Infrastructure monitoring free for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention |
stable |
| skylight.io | Free Application performance monitoring — free for first 100,000 traces/month. |
stable |
| New Relic | Free Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention |
stable |
| Elastic | Free OSS The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing customers only) and Enterprise are custom-priced and add machine learning, cross-cluster… |
stable |
| SigNoz | Free OSS OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one tool. The community edition is free to self-host. |
stable |
| Grafana | Free OSS Grafana OSS — the self-hosted dashboarding and alerting front end, free under AGPL-3.0-only with Apache-2.0 exceptions. Unifies 150+ data sources into one dashboard and supports observability-as-code. |
stable |
| AppSignal | Free Application monitoring (APM, errors, logging) — Our free plan is perfect for startups, hobby, or side-projects 30K requests 1GB logging 5-day retention |
caution |
| Google Cloud Monitoring | Always Free Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources
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unrated |
| syagent.com | Free Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances. |
stable |
| Prometheus | Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. |
source unconfirmed |
| Jaeger | Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated distributed tracing system. |
source unconfirmed |
| bleemeo.com | Free Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. |
unrated |
| netdata.cloud | Free Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub! |
unrated |
| inspector.dev | Free A complete Real-Time monitoring dashboard in less than one minute with a free forever tier. |
source unconfirmed |
| Sentry | Developer Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments |
stable |
| Sematext | Basic (Free) Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min data retention, 1 alert rule. |
stable |
| Hyperping | Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts |
stable |
| Xitoring.com | Free Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, xitoring.com reads: The page offers a 14-day free trial, and then paid plans starting at $4.99/mo for Uptime + SSL. We are not publishing our stored Xitoring.com terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. |
unrated — change unconfirmed |
| fivenines.io | Trial Linux server monitoring with real-time dashboards and alerting — no permanent free tier. 14-day free trial with no credit card required; paid plans from €19/month. |
risky |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Grafana%20Cloud
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Grafana%20Cloud