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 | |
bg-sof-1 | Bulgaria | Sofia | |
ch-dk-2 | Switzerland | Zurich | |
ch-gva-2 | Switzerland | Geneva | |
de-fra-1 | Germany | Frankfurt | |
de-muc-1 | Germany | Munich | |
hr-zag-1 | Croatia | Zagreb |
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.