Observability platforms price per host or per gigabyte ingested, and the bill grows precisely when things get busy. Grafana is the industry-standard dashboard layer, and running it yourself means the cost of watching your systems is fixed.
List prices as published by each vendor. Yours is flat.
| Datadog Pro | $15/host/mo | per host, plus ingestion |
| Grafana Cloud Pro | $19/mo | plus usage |
| New Relic Standard | $49/user/mo | per person |
| Grafana here | Free | unlimited users |
Grafana is the open standard for observability dashboards. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from any source, build rich dashboards, and get alerted before small issues become outages.
Who this is for: Anyone with metrics, logs, or a database and a need to watch them.
Yes. Point it at any Postgres or MySQL you run here and build panels from plain SQL.
Only for infrastructure metrics. For business dashboards on a database, Grafana alone is enough.
Yes, unified alerting is part of the open-source build.
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