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Query, visualize, and alert on data

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High-scale distributed tracing backend

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Scalable and performant metrics backend

Grafana Pyroscope

Scalable continuous profiling backend

Grafana Beyla

eBPF auto-instrumentation

Grafana Faro

Frontend application observability web SDK

Grafana Alloy

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with Prometheus pipelines

Grafana k6

Load testing for engineering teams

Prometheus

Monitor Kubernetes and cloud native

OpenTelemetry

Instrument and collect telemetry data

Graphite

Scalable monitoring for time series data

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Community resources

Dashboard templates

Try out and share prebuilt visualizations

Prometheus exporters

Get your metrics into Prometheus quickly

end-to-end solutions

Opinionated solutions that help you get there easier and faster

Kubernetes Monitoring

Get K8s health, performance, and cost monitoring from cluster to container

Application Observability

Monitor application performance

Frontend Observability

Gain real user monitoring insights

Incident Response & Management

Detect and respond to incidents with a simplified workflow

monitor infrastructure

Out-of-the-box KPIs, dashboards, and alerts for observability

Linux

Windows

Docker

Postgres

MySQL

AWS

Kafka

Jenkins

RabbitMQ

MongoDB

Microsoft Azure

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Instantly connect all your data sources to Grafana

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Oracle

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## Your tools / data

Connect your tools and your teams with Grafana plugins. Data source plugins hook into existing data sources via APIs and render the data in real time without requiring you to migrate or ingest your data.

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Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

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Proactively monitor the performance of your APIs and web applications from the user’s perspective, testing the availability, health, and quality of your services around the world.

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## Alerting

Create, manage, and take action on your alerts in a single, consolidated view, and improve your team’s ability to identify and resolve issues quickly.

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## Incident management

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## Cost management

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## Security and governance

Grafana's security and governance capabilities include robust user authentication and authorization, data source permissions, audit logging, and compliance with industry standards to ensure secure and controlled access to data visualizations and dashboards.

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## Configuration (as code)

Manage dashboards, datasources, and configurations through declarative JSON or YAML files, enabling version control and automated deployments for consistent and reproducible monitoring environments.

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Store and query logs from all your applications and infrastructure – without worrying about log volumes, costs, or storage limits.

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Query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

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Understand the flow of requests and data in your software systems and track down issues quickly with this highly scalable, cost-effective trace storage and query engine.

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## Mimir

Bring together the raw, unsampled metrics for all your applications and infrastructure, spread around the globe, in one place. Query high-cardinality data with blazing fast PromQL and Graphite queries.

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## Pyroscope

Optimize infrastructure spend, simplify debugging, and enhance application performance through continuous profiling.

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### Troubleshoot faster

Contextual alerts integrated into Grafana Cloud’s workflows for application, Kubernetes, and infrastructure observability – and more – speed up root cause analysis.

At BlackRock, this “**put our telemetry into action and ultimately resolved issues faster,**” Head of Observability Olin Gay said at ObservabilityCON.

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Using machine learning under the hood, the Adaptive Telemetry features aggregate unused metrics and optimize log volumes.

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### Manage your incident response, all in Grafana Cloud

The IRM solution provides workflows to create alerts and SLOs, manage on-call and incident response, and learn from postmortems – all within the context of your observability stack.

“**Getting on-call notifications and paging integrated closer to the dashboards and data that help developers diagnose and resolve issues will greatly improve on-call workflows,**” said The Trade Desk Staff Software Engineer Nathan Bellowe.

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Synthetic Monitoring: Timepoint Explorer

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Synthetic Monitoring: Alert Routing Summary

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring

Release date: 2025-11-04

Grafana IRM Slack app now available in the Slack Marketplace

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