Control observability costs. Optimize every signal in Grafana Cloud.

Grafana Cloud's cost management and billing app gives you complete visibility into metrics, logs, traces, and profiles spend, while automated tools like Adaptive Telemetry help reduce costs while keeping critical insights.

Easily monitor your spend

Track usage and costs in real time. Break down spend by product, team, or service.

Prevent overspending

Set usage and spend alerts and route notifications anywhere, from Slack, email, PagerDuty, and more

Cut telemetry costs

Automatically optimize with Adaptive Telemetry: keep what matters, drop what doesn't

Trusted by everyone from startups to the Fortune 500

Why use Grafana Cloud for cost management and optimization?

See exactly where your observability budget goes

  • Track spending in real time with a centralized app that shows spend balance, contract burn-down, and product-level usage

  • Spot anomalies early by identifying unusual cost patterns and comparing month-over-month changes to optimize your spend, and identify trends before they impact your budget

  • Access detailed breakdowns with monthly invoices you view and download directly in Grafana Cloud

Stop budget overruns before they happen

  • Avoid unexpected charges with configurable alerts that set thresholds on specific usage metrics, detect spikes or anomalies in cost or usage, and surface attribution insights showing which teams or services are driving changes

  • Get early warnings by notifying teams at pre-set percentages of budget spend, or when attribution or anomaly-based signals suggest unusual spend patterns, so they can take action before limits are reached

  • Route alerts anywhere by sending notifications to Slack, email, PagerDuty, or any channel your team uses

Reduce costs and maximize insight automatically with Adaptive Telemetry

  • Cut costs by 30-50% on average with Adaptive Telemetry, which automatically identifies and optimizes low-value data across all telemetry 

  • Accelerate resolution by making sure the right signals are surfaced quickly

  • Highlight the data that matters by using exemptions to preserve specific signals critical to your operations

Attribute costs to teams, projects, and services

  • Allocate every dollar clearly by breaking down costs by team, project, service, or any custom dimension using cost attribution

  • Build team accountability by giving every dollar an owner so teams understand their observability impact

  • Support internal billing by enabling chargeback and showback models without forcing teams to manage separate budgets

Real stories from real customers

“We solved our [observability] problems, our cost problems were solved, our pricing and unpredictability were also solved. And now we have a predictable solution and a partner that works well with us and we’re happy with where we are with Grafana Cloud.“

Mike GordonVP, Platform Engineering, Fivetran

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Perfect for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups. No charges ever.

Benefits:
  • 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

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$19/ month + usage

Ready for scaling with more retention, basic support, and usage-based pricing.

Everything in Free plus:
  • 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

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Starts at
$25,000/ year spend commit

A full-service offering for companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements.

Let’s talk if you’re thinking about:
  • Premium support

  • Custom retention

  • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)

Part of your Grafana Cloud observability platform

Works seamlessly with other Grafana Cloud products including:

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Why choose Grafana Cloud

Open & unified platform

OpenTelemetry-native observability and no lock-in, with out-of-the-box solutions like Kubernetes Monitoring, Application Observability, Grafana SLO, and RUM delivered in one unified experience. 

Cost efficiency

Optimize costs without sacrificing insight with Adaptive Telemetry, which filters out unused data so your budget goes toward what actually drives value. Pair with cost management tools that help you monitor, control, and tune spend. 

AI & automation

Grafana Assistant powers agentic workflows, prebuilt dashboards, intelligent filters, and customized alerts—surfacing the data you need for faster, more efficient incident response. 

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