4 self-hosted Grafana Cloud alternatives

Grafana Cloud is a popular proprietary tool in the monitoring & status space. These open-source apps let you replace Grafana Cloud with software you host and control yourself.

Best self-hosted Grafana Cloud alternatives

VictoriaMetrics

Monitoring & Status

Fast, cost-effective time series database and monitoring solution

Replaces Datadog, Grafana Cloud

★ 17.5k Medium setup Apache-2.0

Thanos

Monitoring & Status

Highly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage

Replaces Datadog, Grafana Cloud

★ 14.2k Hard setup Apache-2.0

Cortex

Monitoring & Status

Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus as a service

Replaces Datadog, Grafana Cloud

★ 5.8k Hard setup Apache-2.0

Chronograf

Dashboards & Startpages

Visualization and admin interface for the InfluxData stack

Replaces Grafana Cloud, Datadog Dashboards

★ 1.6k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

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Switching from Grafana Cloud

Moving off Grafana Cloud means trading a managed subscription for a service you run yourself. The payoff is ownership: no per-seat pricing, no vendor lock-in, and full control of your data. Start with the option above that matches your setup-difficulty comfort level — every app links to a detailed specs page and head-to-head comparisons.