Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for Grafana offers three editions: Shared Edition (free), Pro Edition, and Advanced Edition. The service has been commercially available since 00:00 on February 8, 2023.
Prices on this page are for reference only. See the buy page for current pricing.
Choose an edition
| Shared Edition | Pro Edition | Advanced Edition | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Starting at USD 37.74/month (Chinese mainland) | Starting at USD 150.94/month (Chinese mainland) |
| Users | N/A | 10, 30, or 50 | Up to 100 (or up to 2,000 with custom users) |
| Dashboards | Read-only, prebuilt | Unlimited, fully customizable | Unlimited, fully customizable |
| Data sources | Application Monitoring, Prometheus | 100 to unlimited (varies by tier) | Unlimited |
| Alert rules | N/A | 500 to unlimited (varies by tier) | Unlimited |
| Best for | Viewing built-in monitoring dashboards at no cost | Teams that need custom dashboards, alerting, and multiple data sources | Large organizations that require high compute resources and dedicated support |
Shared Edition
Managed Service for Grafana provides a free workspace by default with read-only dashboards that integrate Application Monitoring and Managed Service for Prometheus data:
Application Monitoring dashboard -- For dashboard metrics, see Application monitoring metrics.
Default Managed Service for Prometheus dashboard -- For dashboard metrics, see Metrics.
Alert Management dashboard
Synthetic Monitoring dashboard
Grafana (integrated third-party open-source tool) permits dashboard editing but does not persist changes.
Pro Edition and Advanced Edition
Pro Edition and Advanced Edition use subscription billing. Select an edition and subscription duration based on your workload requirements.
Free trial: If you activate Pro Edition (10 users) for the first time, you get a one-month free trial. Set Subscription Duration to 1 Month when you purchase the workspace.
Subscription terms:
Start and end dates are calendar days. The minimum duration is one month.
A monthly subscription takes effect on the purchase date.
Features
Pro and Advanced Edition workspaces include the following features:
| Feature category | Included capabilities |
|---|---|
| Monitoring and alerting | Performance monitoring, alert management |
| Data management | Data security, data migration, dashboard backup |
| Access control | Account management, parameters settings, domain name management |
| Infrastructure | Cloud service management, VPC tunnel management |
| Governance | Reports, auditing |
Data source integrations
Pro and Advanced Editions support the following data sources:
Application Monitoring
Managed Service for Prometheus
Simple Log Service
CloudMonitor
Managed Service for OpenTelemetry
Lindorm
Elasticsearch
Tablestore
MaxCompute
Pricing and specifications
Pro Edition
| 10 users | 30 users | 50 users | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Users and organizations | 10 users, 10 organizations | 30 users, 10 organizations | 50 users, 10 organizations |
| Dashboards | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Data sources | 100 | 200 | Unlimited |
| Alert rules | 500 | 1,000 | Unlimited |
| API keys | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Compute resources | 1 vCPU, 2 GB memory | 2 vCPUs, 4 GB memory | 4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory |
| Price (Chinese mainland) | USD 37.74/workspace/month | USD 56.6/workspace/month | USD 75.47/workspace/month |
| Price (other regions) | USD 52.83/workspace/month | USD 79.25/workspace/month | USD 105.66/workspace/month |
Account system: Alibaba Cloud account system and self-managed account system
Technical support: Ticket system and DingTalk group chat (ID: 34785590)
Pricing example: A team with 25 users in the Singapore region needs custom dashboards with alerting. They select the Pro Edition (30 users) tier. Monthly cost = USD 79.25/workspace/month.
Advanced Edition
| Standard (up to 100 users) | Custom (up to 2,000 users) | |
|---|---|---|
| Organizations | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Dashboards | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Data sources | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Alert rules | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| API keys | 100 | 100 |
| Compute resources | 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory | 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory |
| Price (Chinese mainland) | USD 150.94/workspace/month | USD 150.94/workspace/month for the first 100 users + USD 15.09 for every additional 10 users |
| Price (other regions) | USD 211.32/workspace/month | USD 211.32/workspace/month for the first 100 users + USD 21.13 for every additional 10 users |
Account system: Alibaba Cloud account system and self-managed account system
Technical support: Ticket and dedicated DingTalk group chat
Pricing example: An organization with 150 users in the Singapore region selects the Advanced Edition (custom users) tier. Monthly cost = USD 211.32 (first 100 users) + 5 x USD 21.13 (50 additional users in blocks of 10) = USD 316.97/workspace/month.
Purchase a workspace
Go to the buy page to purchase a Managed Service for Grafana workspace.
Upgrade or downgrade a workspace
Upgrade or downgrade a workspace on the Workspace Management page in the Managed Service for Grafana console.