Overview
Exoscale’s Managed Grafana provides a fully managed observability platform ideal for cloud-native environments. It allows you to launch a Grafana instance within minutes and set up a monitoring solution for your systems and applications, combining data from various sources into a single dashboard
Terminology
- Grafana Service
a managed deployment of the Grafana OSS application on Exoscale - Data Source
external system (Prometheus, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, etc.) queried by Grafana - Dashboard
collection of panels that visualise data from one or more data sources - Alert Rule
condition evaluated on dashboard queries; triggers a notification channel when firing - Plugin
community or official extension that adds panels, data sources, or apps
Features
- Managed Lifecycle
one-click provisioning, seamless point-release upgrades and simple plan scaling - Secure by Default
TLS on the public endpoint, SSO via Exoscale IAM or native Grafana users - Dashboards & Alerting
full Grafana OSS feature set, including Alerting v2 and alert rules as code - Plugin Catalogue
curated selection of official and community plugins pre-approved by Exoscale - Exoscale Integrations
ready-made data sources for Metrics, DBaaS logs and OpenSearch indices - Automated Backups
daily off-site snapshots of Grafana’s SQLite/PostgreSQL storage (plan-dependent)
Availability
Managed Grafana can be deployed in every current Exoscale zone:
Zone | Country | City | Availability |
---|---|---|---|
at-vie-1 | Austria | Vienna | |
at-vie-2 | Austria | Vienna | |
ch-gva-2 | Switzerland | Geneva | |
ch-dk-2 | Switzerland | Zurich | |
de-fra-1 | Germany | Frankfurt | |
de-muc-1 | Germany | Munich | |
bg-sof-1 | Bulgaria | Sofia |
Limitations
- Grafana OSS
is the only feature set offered; enterprise features (e.g. fine-grained RBAC, reporting) are not included. - Custom Plugins
must be requested via support for security vetting before installation. - Single-Region Only
is the provided service scope; cross-zone replication is not supported (use forks for disaster-recovery copies). - API Keys
and user management are available, but organisation & team features are limited to one default organisation.
NOTE
For operational procedures (backups, upgrades, maintenance windows, …) see the section Operation.
Hands-on guides (migrations, client libraries, Terraform modules, …) you can find under How-To.