Grafana 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Grafana

4.6

(71)

Pricing

Starting at $19.00 per month

About Grafana

Grafana Labs provides an open and composable observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Observability Platforms and positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, Grafana Labs supports over 25M users and 5,000+ customers—including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom. The LGTM Stack combines Grafana for visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Grafana Cloud, the fully managed offering, accelerates time to value with turnkey solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. It features Adaptive Metrics for cost-efficient data aggregation and native OpenTelemetry support. Built on open standards, Grafana empowers teams to visualize and correlate data from any source—without vendor lock-in—whether self-managed or in the cloud.

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Grafana Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Cloud Pro

$19.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Enterprise

$25,000.00

per year

Plan includes:

Premium Support
Custom Retention
Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
Custom Uptime SLA

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Grafana Features

Popular features found in Reporting
Ad hoc Query
Customizable Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Forecasting
Multiple Data Sources
OLAP
Performance Metrics
Scheduled/Automated Reports
Search/Filter
More features of Grafana
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Monitoring
Activity Tracking
Ad hoc Reporting
AI/Machine Learning
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Analytics
Anomaly Detection
API
Application-Level Analysis
Application Management
Asset Discovery
Audit Management
Audit Trail
Bandwidth Monitoring
Baseline Manager
Bottleneck Identification
Capacity Management
Capacity Planning
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Configuration Management
Container Monitoring
Correlation Analysis
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Data Analysis Tools
Database Monitoring
Data Connectors
Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Dependency Tracking
Device Auto Discovery
Diagnostic Tools
Downtime Tracking
Email Alerts
Event Logs
Event Tracking
Financial Reporting
HIPAA Compliant
Incident Management
Incident Reporting
IP Address Monitoring
Issue Tracking
Key Performance Indicators
Load Balancing
Log Analysis
Log Collection
Log Management
Log Parsing
Log Rotation
Marketing Reports
Monitoring
Multi-Location Monitoring
Network Analysis
Network Mapping
Network Monitoring
Patch Management
Pattern Detection and Recognition
PCI Compliance
Performance Monitoring
Policy Management
Predictive Analytics
Prioritization
Query Analysis
Real-time Alerts
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Remediation Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Risk Alerts
Role-Based Permissions
Root Cause Analysis
Sales Reports
Secure Data Storage
Server Monitoring
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Single Sign On
Task Management
Third-Party Integrations
Threat Intelligence
Threat Response
Threshold Alerts
Transaction Monitoring
Trend Analysis
Troubleshooting
Uptime Reporting
User Management
Virtualization
Visual Analytics
Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Scanning
Web Traffic Reporting
Widgets
Workflow Management

Grafana Integrations

Microsoft SQL Server

Redis Enterprise

GitHub

Cloudflare

Jira

WSO2 API Manager

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Grafana User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

63%

34%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.5

Francisco T.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Why we have to use Grafana?

It's "The daily tool" to review, server status, service status, backups status. It's the 'must have' tool for viewing the status of servers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's very easy to mix different data and create different graphs. Now it's possible to make graphs and mix with images, SVG images. All of this in a very intuitive way.

Cons:

It's not possible to make granular permissions in the versions we use.

Reasons for choosing Grafana

It's very simple to use and there are many examples on the website.

Reasons for switching to Grafana

Zabbix gets the data and we use Grafana for visualize.

Verified

Reviewer

Retail

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

insight and understanding into your application

With Grafana you get insight and understanding into your application, easy setup dashboards.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- dashboarding - insight into metrics, traces and logging - synthetics checks - K6 Load testing -Alerting

Cons:

- licence is also user based - Learning curve is for developers

Reasons for choosing Grafana

the price, licencing and the opensource variant

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Grafana for proof of concept

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Low-code software that is very easy to create meaningful visualizations and dashboards that can be deployed in a real-life scenario within a few hours.

Cons:

The dark mode colours can be a bit dull and the UI can be improved a lot more.

Reasons for switching to Grafana

The price was cheaper for creating proof of concepts

Praveen Kumar M.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Grafana: Dashboard for everyone

I am very happy with Grafana and it's dashboard and plotting variations of metricises.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In Grafana it's very easy to create the dashboard and plot the data at the same location from multiple resources. It supports many data sources like Prometheus and Influx database.

Cons:

If we need to create custom dashboards, we need to learn JASON language.

Reasons for choosing Grafana

Grafana is easy to use and configure for any organisation. It's data plotting matrices are very attractive and eye catching.

Reasons for switching to Grafana

Kibana is taking too much time in plotting the data and data consistency is also an issue with Kibana.

Carlos Hugo Martin C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Experience with Grafana

Se ha utilizado Grafana para generar dashboards de monitoreo, pudiendo centralizar las métricas de distintas soluciones de monitoreo como Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to generate visually attractive, efficient dashboards that help the operations area understand what is happening on the monitored platforms.

Cons:

That different data sources cannot be used in the same graph at the same time, causing a visual comparison of the data to be difficult.

Reasons for choosing Grafana

For the price and flexibility of Grafana when generating dashboards.

Reasons for switching to Grafana

Grafana is more flexible when it comes to generating dashboards, plus it has more integration options.

Verified

Reviewer

Banking

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Visualization for your data

Overall we have been able to accomplish something we never have before and track trends and pin point possible issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The dashboards that are built with Grafana are very appealing. Everyone from basic users, high level management and Engineers find the data visualization extremely beneficial.

Cons:

Getting the dashboards built out exactly how you want can sometimes be difficult.

Reasons for choosing Grafana

The cost of Grafana (free) was easier to swallow than the hefty quote from Datadog

Tony P.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Metric Dashboard

Very intuitive and well designed. Good product for network devices monitoring and gauge.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nice graphical dashboard panel that show network device utilization, data and stats including time stamps which can be download.

Cons:

It doesn't have the ability to set multiple dates/ times graphs in a single panel for comparison purposes. Product might need to consider optional PDF along with CSV when download files.

Reasons for choosing Grafana

Graphs which show precise metric performance for network utilization and easy viewing and understanding for the upper management . A good presentation graphical report using JSON.

Javvad H.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Data visualization with Grafana

Overall Grafana is very user friendly and at the same time stands well when compared to other major visualization tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Grafana gives the ability to produce beautiful data visualizations that offer realtime insights into the data set s thanks to its rich collection of graphs and visuals. It supports connectivity with numerous data sources like excel, csv, SQL etc. The created dashboards are opened in web browser that gives great opportunity to share and present on network operation centre main screen. The dashboards developed are scalable and flexible.

Cons:

In the start it takes little bit of effort to come up with a visualization that you need to develop there on its fairly easy and scalable.

Reasons for switching to Grafana

Power BI gives limited functionality to share the dashboards, and owing to IT policies restrictions to not use the cloud for sensitive data, Grafana offered good options to share locally on company LAN network.

Belmin K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Best software for monitoring dashboards

Beautiful interface, easy deploy and perfect integration with my Zabbix server.I know if there are any problems in my infrastructure just by looking at the dashboard.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy deployment, integrates nicely with Zabbix and has many graphs for data visualization.I like the fact that I can customize a lot the dashboard.

Cons:

Some configurations might be difficult if you are new on Linux.

Jason Taylor F.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Metrics + Visualization + Alerts = Bliss

We were looking to have multiple monitoring targets with good visualization to pipe out for both classical notifications and visualization. I can't say enough about the awesome visualizations; makes it so easy to demonstrate across teams when things are good (heart symbol), or when things are bad (giant spikes pushing over your happiness thresholds; dashed tolerance lines).

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I love the customizable dashboards with the ability to zero in on specific time frames. The alert settings can be adjusted, the data sources can be customized, and the notifications can be customized. It's a very flexible tool and is open source.

Cons:

The downside of having something so customizable is that you need to invest some time to get it to produce what you're looking for. It's worth the investment, but know ahead of time that it is a significant investment. Aside from setting up the data in and alerts out (and configuring the limits, etc.), you also need a storage solution if you want to keep a historical record; but this isn't super necessary since your data sources likely have storage solutions. Still, it would be nice to have a record of Grafana since that is where you've invested the time and congregated the data.

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