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Top Free Alternatives to Grafana Cloud

Stop paying expensive subscriptions for Hosting & DevOps tools. Discover the best free and open-source replacements for Grafana Cloud.

Why switch from Grafana Cloud?

Grafana Cloud charges high fees once you scale past their free logs and metrics ingestion limits. Running self-hosted Grafana instances allows you to visualize your databases without data ingestion limits.

Grafana OSS

Free / Open Source
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The open-source visualization and analytics software. Create dashboards for your databases.

Key Features

  • Rich dashboard panels
  • Dozens of data sources (SQL, Prometheus)
  • Alerting engine
  • Custom plugins

Pros

  • + Industry standard visualization dashboard
  • + Completely free with no limits on panels or users
  • + Massive community templates library

Cons

  • - Requires manually setting up and securing the hosting instance
  • - You must configure backups for dashboard settings