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:

ZoneCountryCityAvailability
at-vie-1AustriaVienna
at-vie-2AustriaVienna
ch-gva-2SwitzerlandGeneva
ch-dk-2SwitzerlandZurich
de-fra-1GermanyFrankfurt
de-muc-1GermanyMunich
bg-sof-1BulgariaSofia

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.