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10 Best Open Source Grafana Cloud Alternatives

A curated collection of the 10 best open source and self-hosted alternatives to Grafana Cloud in 2026.

Looking for a free, privacy-friendly, or self-hosted replacement for Grafana Cloud in 2026? The top open-source alternative is Grafana — Grafana unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data into one OpenTelemetry-native platform with AI-assisted root cause analysis and adaptive cost controls..

Other highly rated open-source Grafana Cloud alternatives include NetData, Prometheus and SigNoz.

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Grafana unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data into one OpenTelemetry-native platform with AI-assisted root cause analysis and adaptive cost controls.

Grafana preview

Grafana unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data into one OpenTelemetry-native platform with AI-assisted root cause analysis and adaptive cost controls.

80,318

Powerful, efficient, and user-friendly monitoring solution for servers, containers, and applications with instant insights and alerts.

NetData preview

Powerful, efficient, and user-friendly monitoring solution for servers, containers, and applications with instant insights and alerts.

65,850

Pull-based monitoring system with a multi-dimensional data model, PromQL query language, built-in alerting, and a time series database built for cloud native environments.

Prometheus preview

Pull-based monitoring system with a multi-dimensional data model, PromQL query language, built-in alerting, and a time series database built for cloud native environments.

31,936

Comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting solution for microservices architectures, offering metrics, traces, and logs in a single pane.

SigNoz preview

Comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting solution for microservices architectures, offering metrics, traces, and logs in a single pane.

21,502

Monitor logs, metrics, and traces with an open-source observability platform. Achieve petabyte scale with 140x lower storage costs and high performance.

OpenObserve preview

Monitor logs, metrics, and traces with an open-source observability platform. Achieve petabyte scale with 140x lower storage costs and high performance.

17,599

Time series database and monitoring platform compatible with Prometheus, handling billions of metrics with lower resource usage than most alternatives.

VictoriaMetrics preview

Time series database and monitoring platform compatible with Prometheus, handling billions of metrics with lower resource usage than most alternatives.

9,865

Open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, traces, metrics and errors. Fast search, automatic clustering, $0.40/GB pricing.

HyperDX preview

Open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, traces, metrics and errors. Fast search, automatic clustering, $0.40/GB pricing.

6,576

Cloud-native observability database unifying metrics, logs, and traces with sub-second queries, 50x cost reduction, and seamless OpenTelemetry integration.

GreptimeDB preview

Cloud-native observability database unifying metrics, logs, and traces with sub-second queries, 50x cost reduction, and seamless OpenTelemetry integration.

4,270

Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-based platform that integrates traces, metrics, and logs to help monitor and optimize complex distributed systems.

Uptrace preview

Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-based platform that integrates traces, metrics, and logs to help monitor and optimize complex distributed systems.

1,728

Observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse. Collect, visualize, and query distributed traces, logs, and metrics, with an MCP server for AI agent diagnostics.

Maple preview

Observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse. Collect, visualize, and query distributed traces, logs, and metrics, with an MCP server for AI agent diagnostics.

About Grafana Cloud

Managed observability platform that brings together metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards so teams can monitor infrastructure and applications without running their own Grafana stack.