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Managed Grafana Hosting

Name: Grafana
Price: 29 USD
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Analytics and interactive visualization platform

What is Grafana on ManageStacks?

Grafana on ManageStacks is the self-hosted, open-source Grafana OSS deployed to your own AWS, Azure, or GCP region — priced flat at $29 per instance per month instead of per-active-user like Grafana Cloud or Datadog, with unlimited dashboards, unlimited users, all 100+ data-source plugins, and pre-configured infrastructure dashboards. Your query metadata and alerting rules stay in your cloud.

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About Grafana

What Grafana does, and why teams deploy it.

Grafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It enables you to query, visualise, alert on, and understand metrics from any data source. Grafana supports 100+ built-in data sources (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, Loki, Tempo) and has a rich ecosystem of community plugins for the rest.

Used by millions at organisations of every size, Grafana is the default for creating dashboards that bring together infrastructure, application, and business metrics in one place. It's the observability layer, not the data store — you point it at your existing metric backends and it renders.

Self-hosting Grafana OSS at production scale means running the Grafana binary + a Postgres or MySQL database for dashboards/users/alerts + persistent storage for plugins + SSL + a plan for the alerting-rule DB migrations that happen between major versions. ManageStacks handles the operational shell so your team focuses on dashboards, not the box under them.

DIY vs ManageStacks

What running Grafana yourself looks like — and what it looks like with us.

DIY self-hosting

Install Grafana + Postgres on an EC2 box; configure grafana.ini and provisioning YAML by hand
Set up SSL, DNS, and reverse proxy separately
Handle plugin storage and version compatibility yourself
Test major-version upgrades (9→10→11) manually; migrate alerting-rule schema
Build HA yourself — two Grafana replicas, shared Postgres, session-affinity load balancer

On ManageStacks

Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace
Grafana comes up with Postgres, persistent storage, SSL, and infrastructure dashboards pre-installed
New Grafana versions arrive as one-click updates after we validate the DB migration
Daily encrypted Postgres backups + object-storage plugin persistence run in the background
HA-mode replicas + shared backend available on Business plans

5 min

Deploy time — subscribe to first dashboard

$29/mo

Flat per instance, unlimited users and dashboards

100+

Built-in data sources; plus community + custom plugins

OSS

Grafana OSS (Apache 2.0); bring your own Enterprise licence

Key features

Everything Grafana ships with, running on our stack.

Interactive dashboards with rich panel library and templating
100+ built-in data sources (Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, CloudWatch, PostgreSQL)
Unified alerting engine with multi-channel notifications (Slack, PagerDuty, email, webhook)
Templated dashboards, variables, and repeatable panels
Role-based access control (Viewer / Editor / Admin) with team assignments
Annotations and event correlation across dashboards
Plugin ecosystem — panel plugins, data-source plugins, app plugins
Dashboard-as-code via JSON export or Grafana Terraform provider
Grafana OnCall integration for incident routing (self-hosted)
Full data export — dashboards, alert rules, users, folders

How it deploys

From subscribe to live in minutes.

Subscribe to ManageStacks through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace.

Provision

Grafana OSS comes up with Postgres backing DB, persistent storage, SSL, and pre-configured Prometheus/Loki/CloudWatch data-source templates — typically 3-5 minutes.

Connect data

Add your data sources (metric backends, log stores, cloud APIs) through the UI or provisioning YAML. Import Grafana Labs' community dashboards for common stacks.

Alert

Configure notification channels (Slack, PagerDuty, email), build alert rules, and start receiving pages. Backups and updates keep running in the background.

Who this is for

Built for teams that want Grafana to just work.

Platform / SRE teams

You need unified visibility across Prometheus (metrics), Loki (logs), and Tempo (traces). Grafana is the pane of glass. ManageStacks runs the pane so you focus on the metrics behind it.

DevOps teams migrating off Datadog / New Relic

APM SaaS is priced per-host + per-metric and grows unpredictably. Grafana + Prometheus + Loki self-hosted on ManageStacks caps the cost and keeps observability data in your cloud.

Analytics teams building operational dashboards

Grafana isn't just infra — it's a general-purpose dashboarding tool with PostgreSQL and MySQL data sources. Business metrics, sales dashboards, and operational KPIs all render in the same UI.

Compliance & compatibility

What we handle, what Grafana runs on.

Compliance & operations

Automated SSL/TLS via Let's Encrypt with custom-domain support
Daily encrypted Postgres backups stored in a separate region
Point-in-time recovery within the retention window
OS-level security patches applied during your maintenance window
GDPR data-residency — deployment stays in your chosen cloud region
Signed-plugin allowlist by default; unsigned plugins require explicit opt-in

Compatibility

Version: Latest Grafana OSS stable (validated before release)
Runtime: Grafana Go binary on containerised infrastructure
Dependencies: PostgreSQL 15 (backing DB), persistent object storage for plugins
Min. resources: 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM (dedicated, not shared)

How ManageStacks helps

We handle the parts you shouldn't be writing yourself.

ManageStacks deploys Grafana OSS with persistent storage, SSL, a Postgres backing database, and pre-configured data-source templates for Prometheus, Loki, and CloudWatch. We include ready-made dashboards for infrastructure monitoring, handle version upgrades and internal DB migrations, and manage plugin storage and HA setup on higher plans.

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How it compares

Grafana on ManageStacks vs the alternatives.

How Grafana OSS on ManageStacks compares to Grafana Cloud and the two dominant APM SaaS alternatives on architectural properties.

Comparison of Grafana on ManageStacks against publicly-documented alternatives across deployment model, data residency, pricing basis, custom domain support, open-source status, and data export.
Property	Grafana OSS on ManageStacksUs	Grafana Cloud	Datadog	New Relic
Deployment	Managed on your AWS, Azure, or GCP	Vendor-hosted	Vendor-hosted	Vendor-hosted
Data residency	Your cloud region	Vendor infrastructure	Vendor infrastructure	Vendor infrastructure
Pricing basis	Flat per instance	Per active user + per metric ingested	Per host + per metric + per feature	Per user + per GB ingested
User limit	Unlimited	Metered by tier	By tier	By tier
Open source	Yes (Apache 2.0)	Yes (Apache, hosted)	No (proprietary)	No (proprietary)
Alerting included	Unified Alerting included	Included	Included	Included

Comparison focuses on architectural properties (deployment model, pricing basis, open-source status) that don't change with vendor pricing pages. Verify current pricing on each vendor's own site.

FAQ

Common questions about Grafana on ManageStacks.

How long does it take to deploy Grafana on ManageStacks?

Under 5 minutes. ManageStacks provisions Grafana with persistent storage, SSL, a Postgres backing database, and pre-configured data-source templates for Prometheus, Loki, and CloudWatch. Add your data sources through the UI or via provisioning YAML.

How does this compare to Grafana Cloud?

Grafana Cloud is the vendor-hosted offering with a free tier and paid tiers priced per active user + per metric ingested. ManageStacks is a flat $29 per instance regardless of user count or query volume. For teams beyond ~10-15 active users, self-hosted on ManageStacks is materially cheaper — and metrics/logs stay in your infrastructure, which matters if you're pushing sensitive data into your observability layer.

Can I install custom Grafana plugins on ManageStacks?

Yes. Install plugins from the Grafana catalog through the UI, via the grafana-cli, or by uploading signed custom plugins. ManageStacks provides persistent storage so plugins survive restarts and updates. Signed plugins install by default; unsigned plugins need an explicit allowlist for security.

Does ManageStacks handle Grafana version upgrades?

Yes. We test each Grafana release for stability and handle the internal database migrations that happen between major versions (Grafana 9 → 10 → 11 all involved schema changes). One-click apply once we've validated your dashboards render correctly against the new version.

How is HA/high-availability handled?

Grafana OSS supports HA via a shared database backend and shared plugin storage. On Business plans we provision this by default — 2+ Grafana replicas behind a load balancer with a shared Postgres and object-storage-backed plugin directory. Session state stays consistent across replicas.

Are alerting and OnCall included?

Yes — Grafana OSS Unified Alerting (the default alerting engine as of Grafana 8) is included. Grafana OnCall (open-source incident routing / on-call rota) can be added as a separate app on the same deployment for organisations that want everything in one place.

Can I use Grafana Enterprise features?

ManageStacks ships Grafana OSS. Grafana Enterprise features (SAML SSO with role mapping, reporting, LDAP sync, enterprise data sources like ServiceNow) require a licence from Grafana Labs — bring your own licence and we'll enable them on the deployment.

What happens to my dashboards and alerts if I leave?

Full export — dashboards as JSON (via the API or UI), alert rules as YAML (Grafana provisioning format), users and teams as a Postgres dump. Grafana OSS is Apache-licensed, so you can spin it up anywhere. Migration off is a supported operation.

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