Grafana Cloud Free provides always-free observability with no credit card

Grafana Labs currently offers Grafana Cloud Free as an always-free $0 plan for personal projects, experimentation and early-stage teams. The official pricing page says no credit card is required. Free users can access Grafana Cloud services with usage limits, community support and 14-day retention for core telemetry such as metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 performance tests. Grafana also describes the free tier as a fully managed observability platform, so users can build dashboards and investigate systems without operating the backend stack themselves. Individual service quotas still apply, and higher retention, support levels or usage beyond the included limits belong to paid plans. To use the offer, create a free Grafana Cloud account from the official pricing page and review the current service-specific quotas before sending production workloads. This record does not imply unlimited usage; it documents the current no-cost entry plan and its major restrictions.