Decision finder result — Monitoring & Observability Personalized recommendation

Start with Grafana Cloud (open-source foundations, managed)

Grafana Cloud runs Prometheus (metrics), Loki (logs), and Tempo (traces) as managed services. You keep data portability with PromQL/LogQL/TraceQL and can always fall back to self-hosted. The free tier (10K active series, 50GB logs) covers small production environments.

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  • Recommendation: Grafana Cloud

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Grafana Cloud

Managed observability on open-source foundations (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo). Metrics via PromQL, logs via LogQL, traces via TraceQL. Free tier: 10K active series, 50GB logs/month.

Why this recommendation

Grafana Cloud runs Prometheus (metrics), Loki (logs), and Tempo (traces) as managed services. You keep data portability with PromQL/LogQL/TraceQL and can always fall back to self-hosted. The free tier (10K active series, 50GB logs) covers small production environments.

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