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Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring provides dashboards and alerts for monitoring and troubleshooting Kubernetes fleets, including resource usage, health, performance, and costs.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Headquarters
- New York, New York, USARead 28 Sep 2026 · grafana.com
- Founded
- 2014Read 28 Sep 2026 · grafana.com
- Company
- Grafana Labs is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, and was founded in 2014.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Application integrations
- Application telemetry can be sent through OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, or Jaeger receivers, or gathered through compatible Prometheus integrations.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Billing meters
- For plans using the current model, billing is based on active Kubernetes host hours and active container hours reported by kube-state-metrics.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Built-in features
- The product includes cost and resource-efficiency tools, job and energy monitoring, alerts, recording rules, and predictions.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Cloud-only availability
- Kubernetes Monitoring is available only in Grafana Cloud and supports only data sources hosted in Grafana Cloud.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Cost monitoring
- Cost views use OpenCost to estimate Kubernetes infrastructure costs and show allocations across clusters, namespaces, workloads, Pods, and containers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Security certifications
- Grafana Labs lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications, PCI compliance, a GDPR data processor agreement, and participation in the Cloud Security Alliance STAR program.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Separate telemetry charges
- Telemetry from other products on the same cluster, including NGINX integration and Application Observability, is billed separately from Kubernetes Monitoring.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Setup requirements
- The Helm setup requires a Grafana Cloud account, a Kubernetes cluster, kubectl and Helm, and the Admin role to install alerts.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Supported Kubernetes platforms
- The Helm chart supports Kubernetes including EKS on EC2 and GKE, EKS on Fargate, AKS, GKE Autopilot, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, and Red Hat OpenShift.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Telemetry collection
- Grafana Alloy collects Kubernetes metrics, events, and Pod logs, receives application traces, and sends data to Grafana Cloud.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
- Unified view
- The application lets users inspect Kubernetes objects and troubleshoot infrastructure from one interface.Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
Plans and prices
Pro Priced on request 2,232 host hours included per month · 37,944 container hours included per month Read 21 Sep 2026 · grafana.com
Free Free Always free 2,232 host hours & 37,944 container hours per month · Community support · No credit card required Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
Enterprise Priced on request Scalable unit price based on annual commit Minimum commit of $25,000 per year · Premium support · Deployment flexibility Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
Pro Price not published Platform fee of $19 per month includes the listed usage; then pay as you go 2,232 host hours & 37,944 container hours per month included · 8×5 email support · Automatic volume discounts Read 3 Oct 2026 · grafana.com
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