Get started with Mimir on Grafana Cloud

Offered as a fully managed service, Grafana Cloud Metrics is a super fast massively and highly available Prometheus compatible backend. Scale to 1 billion metrics and beyond, with high availability, multi-tenancy, durable storage, and blazing fast query performance over long periods of time with Grafana Mimir. 

Sign up and get free forever access to:
  • 10k series for Prometheus metrics
  • 50GB of logs
  • 50GB of traces
  • 14-day retention for metrics and logs
  • Access for up to 3 team members
  • Plus a 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro to explore unlimited metrics, logs, users, and premium features.

Get Grafana OnCall fully-managed with Grafana Cloud

Grafana OnCall is an easy-to-use on-call management tool intuitively built into Grafana Cloud that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces that is tailored specifically for engineers.

Free forever access to: 

  • 100 SMS / Voice Notifications
  • 10k series for Prometheus metrics
  • 50 GB of logs and 50 GB of traces
  • 14-day retention
  • Access for up to 30 users
  • Plus a 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro to explore unlimited SMS/Voice, metrics, logs, users, and premium features.

Why use Grafana Mimir? 

Grafana Mimir is an open source, horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and has already served as the core of Grafana Labs’ Grafana Cloud Metrics service for months. With the public release of Grafana Mimir, the open source community can now see and benefit from the code that allows us to deliver massive scale and performance on Grafana Cloud.
  • 100% Prometheus compatible, including remote write, PromQL, and alerting
  • High availability through replication
  • Long-term storage on S3, GCS, Azure blob storage, OpenStack Swift
  • Blazing fast queries through a horizontally scalable, sharded query engine
  • Unlimited cardinality with the horizontally scalable compactor, tested to 1 billion active series
  • Advanced multi-tenancy and isolation
  • Horizontally scalable, clustered architecture

Simple alert configuration in Grafana Cloud

With Grafana Cloud alerting, a simple UI embedded right in your Grafana instance can be used to manage alerts — allowing your alerting to become self-service. Create, manage, and silence all of your alerts within one simple Grafana Cloud alerting page. All these options are also available via a RESTful API with tooling to enable a GitOps-style workflow.

Grafana Cloud also allows Prometheus-style alerting on the contents of the logs. A unified experience allows you to manage alerting rules for both metrics and logs directly in Grafana. This is especially useful for third-party systems that don’t export metrics.

A powerful and flexible query language

Grafana Logs uses a similar label format and query language to Prometheus, making it easier to learn and faster to switch between metrics and logs when diagnosing an issue.

  • Query logs with the same syntax used for querying metrics
  • Write log queries that allow you to dynamically filter and transform your log lines
  • Easily calculate metrics from your logs, like the rate of errors or top K sources with the highest log volume
  • Minimal indexing at ingest time means you can slice and dice your logs dynamically at query time to answer new questions as they arise

Data sources

Azure
Google Sheets
InfluxDB
PostgreSQL
Datadog
GitHub
Percona
Zabbix
Turtle
Clock
Graphite
Kubernetes
Instana
D3
MySQL

Implementation details and best practices

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Grafana Grafana

Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards that combine data from multiple sources to foster a data-driven culture within your team.

Logs Logs

Experience the magic of switching from metrics to logs with preserved label filters and time ranges. Quickly search through all your logs or stream them live.

Metrics Metrics

Explore your data through ad-hoc queries and dynamic drilldown. Split view and compare different time ranges, queries, and data sources side by side.

Traces Traces

Grafana ships with built-in support for Grafana Tempo, a high-volume, minimal-dependency open source tracing solution.

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D3
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