Observability / APM
Grafana Cloud / LGTM
Grafana Labs
The de-facto open-source observability stack — best-of-breed components for metrics/logs/traces unified under Grafana dashboards; adopt incrementally.
- Category
- Observability / APM
- License
- Open core
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Low
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Heavy
- Maturity
- Incumbent
- Popularity
- Gartner MQ Leader 2025; LGTM ubiquitous
The catch
It's a stack of separate systems, not one product — metrics cardinality is the silent budget-killer (a misconfigured K8s label can be $1k+/mo), and self-hosting LGTM well needs real distributed-systems expertise.
Monitors
ServersMetricsLogsTracesSyntheticsK8sCloudProfiling
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsDistributed tracingSLO trackingAPIRBAC
Built for
SRE / DevOpsEnterpriseHomelab