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Logs

Grafana

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Traces

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Profiles

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AI/ML insights

Identify anomalies and reduce toil

Contextual root cause analysis

Automated anomaly correlation

SLO management

Create SLOs and error budget alerts

Alerting

Trigger alerts from any data source

Plugins

Connect Grafana to data sources, apps, and more

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Frontend Observability

Gain real user monitoring insights

Application Observability

Monitor application performance

Infrastructure observability

Ensure infrastructure health and performance

Testing

Performance & load testing

Synthetic Monitoring

IRM

OnCall

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Incident

Observability native incident management

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Pricing

Hint: It starts at FREE

Grafana Loki

Multi-tenant log aggregation system

Grafana

Query, visualize, and alert on data

Grafana Tempo

High-scale distributed tracing backend

Grafana Mimir

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 OnCall

On-call management

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

All

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

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Gain real user monitoring insights

Incident Response & Management

Detect and respond to incidents with a simplified workflow

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While in college, Raj founded Voxel, a cloud and hosting company acquired by Internap in 2012. His two great passions are observability and aviation; he got his private pilot’s license almost 20 years ago and has completed his motorglider rating.

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