What’s included in Grafana Cloud Free
The free tier of Grafana Cloud is a no-cost, fully managed observability platform—no credit card required. You get the same Grafana Cloud experience and features as paid plans: application performance, user experience, infrastructure health, reliability workflows, and AI-assisted insights in a single platform, without the need to run or maintain backend infrastructure.
This page explains what you get with the free tier, how it's typically used, and when it makes sense to upgrade.
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Access to the full AI-powered platform, including the latest cloud-only innovations like Application Observability and Real User Monitoring
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Onboard your system in minutes with 100+ integrations and accelerate investigations with the AI assistant
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Generous usage limits and 14-day retention, perfect for smaller projects or teams
Free tier details
Grafana Cloud Free is the no-cost entry point to Grafana Cloud’s full-stack observability platform. It’s designed to help teams understand application behavior, system performance, and operational impact across their stack, using the same platform available on paid plans. With Grafana Cloud Free, teams can:
Observe applications, services, infrastructure, and user experience together. You can move from detection to understanding without switching tools.
Notify on-call engineers and manage your incident lifecycle. Accelerate incident investigations and RCA with the AI assistant.
Get started without needing to install, maintain, or scale backend infrastructure.
This makes the free tier a practical way to evaluate not just individual capabilities, but how observability works as a system.
Perfect for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups. No charges ever.
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
Ready for scaling with more retention, basic support, and usage-based pricing.
Unlimited access to all Grafana Cloud services; simply pay as you go above the free tier
Adaptive Telemetry, AI Assistant, and much more
8X5 email support
13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
A full-service offering for companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements.
Premium support
Custom retention
Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)