European Alternatives to Grafana
Looking for a European alternative to Grafana? Grafana Labs names Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs, of 165 Broadway in New York as the company behind its services, and Grafana Cloud runs in the USA by default, with EU regions available as an option.
Eleven European tools cover the job, from free open-source monitoring platforms to managed observability on European clouds, from companies in Latvia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom.
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11 European Alternatives to Grafana
Zabbix
Riga monitoring platform under AGPLv3 with built-in dashboards, plus a managed Zabbix Cloud
Scaleway Cockpit
Managed Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo from Paris with published per-GB prices
Checkmk
Munich monitoring with a free forever Community edition and published Pro and Ultimate prices
Elastic Observability
Kibana dashboards over logs, metrics and traces from Amsterdam, with a free trial and an AGPL option
Centreon
Paris infrastructure monitoring, free self-hosted up to 100 hosts, SaaS from €425 a month
openITCOCKPIT
Fulda open-source monitoring on Naemon and Prometheus, with Grafana dashboards built in
Icinga
Nuremberg open-source monitoring with unlimited hosts, works alongside Grafana and Prometheus
Paessler PRTG
Nuremberg sensor-based monitor with a 100-sensor freeware edition and a 30-day trial
AppSignal
Dutch application monitoring with a permanent free plan and paid from €18.25 a month, billed yearly
Aiven for Grafana
Managed Grafana from a Finnish company under Finnish law, from $35 a month with a 99.99% SLA
ITRS Geneos and Opsview
London enterprise monitoring for applications, infrastructure and digital experience
Key takeaways
- Grafana is open source (AGPLv3) and self-hostable, so the contract question only applies if you use Grafana Cloud, Enterprise or its websites.
- Grafana Labs' terms choose Irish law and Dublin courts for customers outside the Americas, the UK and Australasia, but its privacy policy names Raintank Inc. in New York, and transfers rest on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
- Zabbix (Riga) is free under AGPLv3 and has a managed Zabbix Cloud; Checkmk (Munich) has a free Community edition and publishes Pro from €190 a month.
- Scaleway Cockpit (Paris) is managed Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo with published prices: €0.35 per GB of logs and €0.15 per million metric samples, with Scaleway's own data included.
- Centreon (Paris) is free up to 100 hosts, and paid plans start at €283 a month self-hosted or €425 a month as SaaS for 125 hosts.
- Three of the eleven (Scaleway Cockpit, openITCOCKPIT, Aiven) run Grafana itself, so they change who you contract with, not the dashboards you use.
Why people leave Grafana
Grafana is the dashboard most engineering teams reach for. You connect it to data sources such as Prometheus, a log store or a SQL database, and you draw graphs, tables and alerts on top.
The software is open source under the AGPLv3 and you can run it yourself for free. Grafana Cloud is the paid, hosted version with metrics, logs and traces: a free tier of 10,000 active series and 50 GB of logs with 14 days of retention, a Pro plan from $19 a month plus usage, and an Enterprise plan that starts at $25,000 a year.
The case for looking elsewhere is narrower than for most incumbents, and it is worth saying so.
Grafana Labs' own terms are fairly accommodating: for customers outside the Americas, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the Master Services Agreement and the Terms choose Irish law and the courts in Dublin, and Grafana Cloud offers regions in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden.
What remains is that its privacy policy names Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs, of 165 Broadway in New York as the company, that transfers to the USA rest on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, that the default region and several subprocessors are American, and that the site Terms include AAA arbitration with a class-action waiver.
This page lists eleven European tools that can take over the job of Grafana and the data behind it. They are not like for like. Most are monitoring platforms that collect, store and display their own data. Three of them (Scaleway Cockpit, openITCOCKPIT and Aiven) run Grafana itself and change who you contract with, not the software you look at.
- The contract is with a New York company Grafana's privacy policy gives Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs, 165 Broadway, 23rd Floor, New York as the company, and its Terms speak of Grafana Labs and its affiliated companies without naming which entity you contract with. If you want the other side of the contract to be an EU, EEA, UK or Swiss company that you can find in a register, the tools below all name one.
- Transfers to the USA rest on the Data Privacy Framework Grafana Labs takes part in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, its UK extension and the Swiss-US framework, and its subprocessor list shows the USA as the default location for infrastructure, with EU regions available on request. That is lawful today and workable, but it depends on an adequacy decision that has been challenged before. A European contracting party does not depend on it.
- Disputes go to Dublin for customers, but to arbitration on the site Terms Customers outside the Americas, the UK and Australasia get Irish law and Dublin courts in both the Terms and the MSA, which is better than many American vendors offer. The site Terms still contain section 19, United States Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Agreement, with binding individual AAA arbitration, a class-action waiver and an opt-out. If a paid agreement is in place, it takes precedence, so read which document applies to you.
- You may not need Grafana Cloud at all Because Grafana is open source, the simplest way to avoid a vendor contract is to run it yourself, and nothing on this page argues against that. The question is whether you want to keep running Grafana plus a metrics store, a log store and alerting, or take a platform that bundles them. The answers differ: Zabbix, Checkmk, Centreon, Icinga and PRTG bundle collection with dashboards, Elastic bundles storage and Kibana, and Scaleway, openITCOCKPIT and Aiven keep Grafana.
What you have to replace, not just match
Start by writing down what your Grafana does today. Which data sources feed it, which dashboards people actually open, which alerts page someone, and whether any of it is Grafana Cloud or only the open-source software on your own server. A team with ten Prometheus dashboards and a self-hosted Grafana has a different problem from one that pays for Grafana Cloud logs and traces.
Then decide whether you are replacing the contract or the tool. If the issue is who you sign with, Scaleway Cockpit, openITCOCKPIT and Aiven keep the Grafana you know.
If you want a different way of working, Zabbix, Checkmk, Centreon, Icinga and PRTG bring their own agents and dashboards, and Elastic brings its own query language and Kibana. In both cases, run the new setup next to the old one for a few weeks and compare the alerts before you switch anything off.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Zabbix | Riga, Latvia | Free and open source; paid support and services | EU (Latvia) |
| #2 | Scaleway Cockpit | Paris, France | From about €0.0025/hour (DEV1-S) | EU (France) |
| #3 | Checkmk | Munich, Germany | Free Raw Edition; paid editions priced per monitored service | EU (Germany) |
| #4 | Elastic Observability | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Free tier / custom pricing | EU (Netherlands) |
| #5 | Centreon | Paris, France | Free self-hosted IT-100 edition up to 100 hosts (no time limit); self-hosted Business from €283/month (125 hosts); SaaS IT Edition from €425/month (125 hosts) and Pro from €1,125/month (250 hosts), billed annually | EU (France) |
| #7 | Icinga | Nuremberg, Germany | Free and open source; paid subscription for support | EU (Germany) |
| #8 | Paessler PRTG | Nuremberg, Germany | PRTG 500 from $200/month, PRTG 1000 from $358/month, PRTG 2500 from $742/month, PRTG 5000 from $1,300/month, PRTG 10000 from $1,642/month, billed annually; also available as PRTG Hosted Monitor or on-prem Enterprise Monitor for larger environments | EU (Germany) |
| #9 | AppSignal | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Free plan (50K requests) / €219 per year for 250K requests a month, logging add-on €89/month | EU (Netherlands) |
| #10 | Aiven for Grafana | Helsinki, Finland | Free tier for small services / from about $20/month, usage-based | EU (Finland) |
How each alternative compares to Grafana
- Which law reaches it. EU (Latvia). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted — wherever you run it.
- Source code. Open source, as Grafana is.
Best for: Teams that want to collect, store and alert on server, network and cloud data in one free, self-hosted platform
Zabbix is made by Zabbix SIA, Gustava Zemgala gatve 74, Riga, registration number LV40003738045 on its contact page. The software is released under the AGPLv3 on its licence page, so it is free to run and modify.
Its homepage describes monitoring of the cloud, networks, services and IoT, available on-premise or in the cloud, with templates and integrations listed on the site and a managed Zabbix Cloud with a 5-day free trial. It collects its own data with agents, so it replaces the collector, the store, the alerting and the dashboards together.
No Zabbix Cloud price is shown on the pages checked, so no figure is quoted here.
What Zabbix does better than Grafana
- AGPLv3 software with a Latvian contracting company named with a registration number
- Collection, storage, alerting and dashboards come in one install
- Free to self-host with no usage cap in the licence
- A managed Zabbix Cloud exists if you do not want to run it
Where Zabbix is a step down from Grafana
- Dashboards are less free-form than Grafana and not built to sit over other data stores
- Running it yourself means managing a database and upgrades
- Zabbix Cloud prices were not visible on the pages checked
Standout against Grafana. A complete monitoring platform under AGPLv3 from a Latvian company, with a managed edition behind it.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw — EU only.
- Source code. Closed source, where Grafana publishes its code.
Best for: Teams that want Grafana dashboards without a Grafana Labs contract and already run workloads at Scaleway
Cockpit is a product of Scaleway SAS, 8 rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, listed in the Paris trade register under 433 115 904. Its product page says it is built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo and compatible with OpenTelemetry.
Cockpit is switched on by default in every Scaleway project at no extra cost for Scaleway's own data, with ready-made Grafana dashboards. For your own data, the pricing page lists logs at €0.35 per GB, metrics at €0.15 per million samples and traces at €0.35 per GB, with default retention of 31 days for metrics and 7 days for logs and traces, and extended retention priced per day.
It can also take data from outside Scaleway, which suits hybrid setups, though it is most convenient for those who are already on Scaleway.
What Scaleway Cockpit does better than Grafana
- French contracting company with a register number, where Grafana Cloud names a New York company
- Same Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo stack, so your queries and dashboards carry over
- Usage prices published in euros, with Scaleway's own data included
- Cockpit is on by default for every Scaleway project
Where Scaleway Cockpit is a step down from Grafana
- Fewer enterprise features and plugins than a full Grafana Cloud or Enterprise plan
- Default retention is short (31 days for metrics, 7 days for logs and traces)
- Most convenient if your workloads already run at Scaleway
Standout against Grafana. The only entry here that offers the Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo stack as a managed service with public per-GB prices.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted, or Checkmk Cloud.
- Source code. Open source, as Grafana is.
Best for: IT teams that want automatic service discovery and a clear price list for growing infrastructure
Checkmk is run by Checkmk GmbH, Kellerstraße 27, Munich, registered at the Munich District Court under HRB 165902 on its imprint page.
Its pricing page lists Community as free and open source, free forever for small infrastructures of around 100 hosts, with 2000+ pre-built integrations. Pro starts at €190 a month and Ultimate at €275 a month, billed annually, for the smallest bundle shown (around 100 hosts), with per-host prices as low as about €1.90 for Pro. Synthetic monitoring with 3 free tests is listed for Pro and Ultimate. A SaaS edition, Checkmk Cloud, is also listed on the site.
What Checkmk does better than Grafana
- German GmbH with a commercial register number, and prices published in euros
- A free Community edition that is useful on its own
- A large catalogue of ready-made integrations (2000+)
- Clear monthly prices for Pro and Ultimate on the pricing page
Where Checkmk is a step down from Grafana
- Infrastructure and service-oriented, not a free-form dashboard layer
- Paid editions are priced by monitored hosts, so cost grows with scale
- No metrics-and-logs store like Grafana Cloud's Mimir and Loki
Standout against Grafana. It is the one here that puts its Pro and Ultimate prices, per host as well as per bundle, next to a free edition on one page.
Elastic Observability
logs, metrics and traces searched and charted in Kibana, from an Amsterdam parent
- Which law reaches it. EU (Netherlands). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted, or Elastic Cloud in EU regions.
- Source code. Open source, as Grafana is.
- Independently checked. GDPR.
Best for: Teams that already search logs in Elasticsearch and want dashboards, traces and metrics in the same place
Elastic N.V. is the parent, with its privacy statement giving Keizersgracht 281, Amsterdam as its address. The Elastic Cloud trial terms name elasticsearch B.V. as the contracting party, so check which entity appears on your order form. Governing law was not found in the pages checked.
Its observability page lists Kibana, with Discover and Dashboards for exploring and visualising data stored in Elasticsearch, and describes itself as OpenTelemetry-first and Prometheus-native, with a free trial. Since September 2024, the Elasticsearch and Kibana source code is also available under the AGPLv3 as an option next to its other licences.
The pricing page did not show amounts in text, so none are quoted here.
What Elastic Observability does better than Grafana
- One place for logs, metrics and traces, with powerful search
- Kibana dashboards sit directly on the data
- OpenTelemetry-first, so instrumentation stays vendor-neutral
- Dutch parent company, and the AGPLv3 option for the source code
Where Elastic Observability is a step down from Grafana
- A different query model from Prometheus and Loki, so existing queries do not carry over
- Running Elasticsearch yourself is heavier than running Grafana
- Prices and governing law were not visible on the pages checked
Standout against Grafana. Dashboards, search and storage come from one vendor, and the AGPLv3 option has been available since September 2024.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Source code. Open source, as Grafana is.
Best for: Teams that want monitoring they can try free and move to a published paid plan
Centreon is edited by CENTREON SAS, share capital €500,000, registered in Paris under RCS 483 494 589, with its registered office at 28/34 rue du Château des Rentiers, according to its legal notice.
Its pricing page lists a free self-hosted edition up to 100 hosts, then €283 a month self-hosted for 125 hosts, and SaaS from €425 a month for 125 hosts and €1,125 a month for 250 hosts, with per-host prices that taper at higher tiers. A free trial is offered.
What Centreon does better than Grafana
- French company with a register number and a published euro price list
- Free self-hosted edition up to 100 hosts, with no time limit stated
- A SaaS option with listed prices for 125 and 250 hosts
- Open-core approach, so you can start free and scale
Where Centreon is a step down from Grafana
- Infrastructure-focused, with less freedom in dashboards than Grafana
- Paid plans start at 125 hosts, which is a step up from the free tier
- Smaller community than Grafana and Prometheus
Standout against Grafana. It lists both the self-hosted and the SaaS price per month for 125 and 250 hosts on one page.
openITCOCKPIT
open-source monitoring from Fulda that ships Grafana inside
Best for: Teams that want Nagios-style host monitoring and Prometheus with Grafana dashboards, without assembling it
openITCOCKPIT is published by it-novum GmbH, Edelzeller Straße 44, 36043 Fulda, registered at the Amtsgericht Fulda under HRB 1934 on its imprint page.
The site describes a configuration and visualisation front end for Naemon, Nagios and Prometheus with its own agent for Windows, Linux and macOS. It builds Grafana in by default: it generates a Grafana dashboard for each host and lets users create their own through its interface. A fully free Community Edition and a subscription-based Enterprise Edition (Bronze to Platin) are listed, and no amounts are quoted here because the period was not clear on the page.
What openITCOCKPIT does better than Grafana
- German GmbH with a commercial register entry, for a product that includes Grafana
- Prometheus integration and Grafana come in the package
- A free Community Edition for everyone
- Its own agent for Windows, Linux and macOS
Where openITCOCKPIT is a step down from Grafana
- Uses Grafana itself, so it changes the package and not the dashboard software
- Smaller project and community than Zabbix or Checkmk
- Enterprise prices were not clear on the pages checked
Standout against Grafana. It generates a Grafana dashboard for every host automatically as part of the install.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted — wherever you run it.
- Source code. Open source, as Grafana is.
Best for: Teams that want to own the monitoring core and plug in Grafana, Prometheus or InfluxDB for dashboards
Icinga is run by Icinga GmbH in Nuremberg, registered under HRB 35189 at the trade register in Nuremberg on its imprint page.
Its pricing page describes a Forever Free Edition with unlimited hosts and services, and lists integrations with Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB and Elasticsearch, automation through its API and tools such as Ansible, Puppet and Terraform. A repository subscription for installation packages comes with a 60-day trial. Subscription prices vary by region on the page, so no amount is quoted.
What Icinga does better than Grafana
- German GmbH with a register number
- Free edition with unlimited hosts and services
- Designed to work with Grafana and Prometheus rather than against them
- Automation through an API and standard configuration tools
Where Icinga is a step down from Grafana
- On its own it is a monitoring engine, and dashboards usually come from Grafana
- More configuration work than a hosted product
- Prices for paid subscriptions depend on the region and were not quoted here
Standout against Grafana. It does not try to replace Grafana, it lists Grafana as a standard integration next to Prometheus and InfluxDB.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Self-hosted, or PRTG Hosted Monitor (managed cloud).
- Source code. Closed source, where Grafana publishes its code.
Best for: Small and mid-sized IT teams that want a single sensor-based console for servers and network devices
PRTG is made by Paessler GmbH, registered at the District Court Nuremberg under HRB 43342, as its imprint page shows.
Its pricing page lists PRTG 500 at $200 a month, PRTG 1000 at $358 and PRTG 2500 at $742 on annual billing, with a 30-day trial that has no sensor or device limit and a Freeware edition with up to 100 sensors for about 10 devices. The page showed dollar prices, so the currency may differ in your region. A hosted version, PRTG Hosted Monitor, is also available.
What Paessler PRTG does better than Grafana
- German GmbH with a register number and a published price table
- A freeware edition of 100 sensors and a full 30-day trial
- Hosted version available if you do not want to run a server
Where Paessler PRTG is a step down from Grafana
- Priced by sensor count, so a larger estate gets expensive
- Not open source, unlike Grafana, Zabbix or Icinga
- Less suited to custom time-series dashboards over many data sources
Standout against Grafana. The pricing table lists each license size next to the number of devices it can monitor.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Netherlands). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Netherlands, on Worldstream B.V., with backups on Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL; an optional US region exists.
- Source code. Closed source, where Grafana publishes its code.
- Independently checked. ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR; HIPAA as a paid add-on.
Best for: Small development teams that want errors, performance and logs for an application without running anything
AppSignal is provided by AppSignal B.V., registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam under number 62960407. Its terms say the agreement and all legal acts are exclusively governed by Dutch law.
Its plans page lists a free plan with 30,000 requests, 1 GB of logs and 5 days of retention, and paid plans from €219 a year (€18.25 a month billed yearly), with a 30-day free trial. It covers application errors, performance and logs for the languages it supports.
It monitors applications, not servers or network devices, so it replaces part of what teams use Grafana for and not all of it.
What AppSignal does better than Grafana
- Dutch company with a chamber of commerce number and Dutch law, stated plainly in the terms
- A free plan that does not expire
- Prices published in euros, without a usage calculator
- No dashboards to build for the common application metrics
Where AppSignal is a step down from Grafana
- Application-focused, so no infrastructure, network or custom data sources
- Free plan retention is only 5 days
- You cannot draw arbitrary dashboards the way you can in Grafana
Standout against Grafana. It gives a developer errors, performance and logs without any dashboard being built at all.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Finland). Grafana is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Your chosen region, including EU-only.
- Source code. Closed source, where Grafana publishes its code.
- Independently checked. Services are open source.
Best for: Teams that want to keep Grafana and change only who runs it and who they sign with
Aiven Oy is registered in Finland with Business ID 2795743-5 in the Finnish trade register, and its privacy policy names Aiven Ltd with the same ID. Its terms are governed by Finnish law, and disputes are settled by arbitration under the Finland Chamber of Commerce rules.
Aiven for Grafana is managed Grafana, listed on its page as running version 11.6 with a 99.99% SLA, and its Startup plan starts from $35 a month. It pairs with Aiven for Metrics to store telemetry. A free trial is offered, and you can pick the cloud it runs on.
What Aiven for Grafana does better than Grafana
- Finnish company in the trade register, where Grafana Cloud names a New York company
- Same Grafana, so dashboards and plugins carry over
- A 99.99% SLA stated on the product page
- Choice of cloud provider for hosting
Where Aiven for Grafana is a step down from Grafana
- It is Grafana itself, so it changes the contract and not the software
- Needs a separate store such as Aiven for Metrics for the data
- Arbitration in Finland is a dispute route you should read before you sign
Standout against Grafana. The one option here that is plain managed Grafana, sold by a company in the Finnish trade register.
ITRS Geneos and Opsview
enterprise monitoring from London, aimed at large organisations
Best for: Large organisations with an enterprise monitoring budget and a need for real-time application and infrastructure monitoring
ITRS Group Limited is registered at Companies House as company 02873731 (incorporated 19 November 1993), and its privacy notice gives 15 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4DN as its address. The United Kingdom is outside the EU but is covered by the contracting-entity rule used on this site.
Its homepage describes real-time application monitoring, IT infrastructure monitoring, digital experience monitoring and AI-powered observability, with Geneos named as its application monitoring product, and its customer quotes mention Opsview. It publishes no prices on the pages checked and no free edition was found.
What ITRS Geneos and Opsview does better than Grafana
- A long-established company with a Companies House record
- Breadth of enterprise monitoring across applications, infrastructure and digital experience
- Built for large and regulated environments
Where ITRS Geneos and Opsview is a step down from Grafana
- No public prices, and no free edition or trial found
- Aimed at enterprises, a poor fit for a small team that wants a quick dashboard
- Less transparency about price and entry route than the open-source options
Standout against Grafana. The only entry here selling enterprise-grade monitoring from a UK company with a record that goes back to 1993.
What actually breaks when you switch
The hardest part is the dashboards. A Grafana dashboard is a JSON definition tied to Grafana's data sources and query languages, and it does not import into Zabbix, Checkmk, Centreon, PRTG or Elastic. Budget time to rebuild the handful that matter, and be ready to retire the rest.
Alert rules and query languages do not carry over either. PromQL in Prometheus, LogQL in Loki and TraceQL in Tempo are things your team knows. Scaleway Cockpit, Aiven and openITCOCKPIT keep those, while Elastic and the agent-based platforms do not.
Think about who runs it. A free self-hosted platform costs a server, a database, upgrades and an engineer's time, and Grafana Cloud's free tier is hard to beat on effort. Compare the full cost, not only the licence line.
Is there a European tool that works exactly like Grafana?
Not as a single product, because Grafana is a layer that sits over many data sources and most European tools are complete monitoring platforms. The closest in practice is Scaleway Cockpit, which is Grafana with Mimir, Loki and Tempo behind it, managed in Paris. Aiven for Grafana is the same Grafana, hosted by a Finnish company.
If you want to keep your dashboards and only change the host, those two or a self-hosted Grafana are the honest answer. If you want a platform that collects its own data, Zabbix, Checkmk and Centreon are the nearest to a Grafana plus Prometheus setup in one install.
Can I keep using Grafana and still avoid a US contract?
Yes. Grafana is open source, so you can run it on your own servers or on a European cloud. Scaleway Cockpit and Aiven for Grafana offer managed versions under French and Finnish contracts, and openITCOCKPIT ships Grafana in its package. Grafana Cloud itself also has EU regions in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden, so a data-location concern alone does not require leaving it.
What none of these removes is the dependence on the Grafana software and its development by Grafana Labs. If that matters to you, a platform with its own dashboards, such as Zabbix or Checkmk, is the way out.
Which of these are free to run?
Zabbix is free under AGPLv3, Icinga has a Forever Free edition with unlimited hosts and services, Checkmk has a Community edition free forever for small estates of around 100 hosts, openITCOCKPIT has a free Community Edition, and Centreon is free self-hosted up to 100 hosts. PRTG has a Freeware edition of 100 sensors, and AppSignal has a permanent free plan.
Free software still has costs: a server, upgrades, backups and someone who knows it. Compare that to a managed option such as Scaleway Cockpit, where you pay for what you ingest.
Where do logs and traces go?
Grafana Cloud stores them in Loki and Tempo. Among the European options, Scaleway Cockpit offers the same stack under Scaleway, and Elastic Observability stores logs, metrics and traces in Elasticsearch and shows them in Kibana. AppSignal covers application errors, performance and logs for developers.
Zabbix, Checkmk, Centreon, Icinga, openITCOCKPIT and PRTG are built for hosts, services and network devices rather than for high-volume log search. Pair them with a log tool if logs matter to you.
Which one to pick
If you like Grafana and mainly want a different contracting party, choose Scaleway Cockpit or Aiven for Grafana. Scaleway publishes its prices per GB and per million samples and is the stronger fit if you already run at Scaleway. Aiven suits teams that want plain managed Grafana under Finnish law.
If you want to replace Grafana together with the collection and storage behind it, Zabbix is the broadest free option, Checkmk has the clearest price list, and Centreon gives a published SaaS price. Elastic Observability fits teams that live in logs and traces. AppSignal is the lightest for a development team that ships one application.
Icinga and openITCOCKPIT are for teams that already like open-source monitoring and are happy to keep Grafana as the dashboard layer, and PRTG and ITRS suit traditional IT estates, with ITRS aimed at large enterprises.
Be realistic about the gap. Grafana is open source, has a free tier, and its terms for EU customers are better than most American vendors. None of the eleven matches its range of data sources and plugins, so the reason to move is a European contracting party and a simpler platform, not a better dashboard.
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It depends on which part of Grafana you use. For a managed version of the same stack under a European contract, Scaleway Cockpit is the closest. For a free, self-hosted platform that collects its own data and has dashboards built in, Zabbix is the broadest. For logs, metrics and traces in one search-driven product, look at Elastic Observability. Checkmk and Centreon suit teams that want infrastructure monitoring with published prices.
Its privacy policy names Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs, 165 Broadway, 23rd Floor, New York as the company, and its Terms refer to Grafana Labs and its affiliated companies without naming the entity you contract with. The software is open source and developed in public, but the commercial services are provided by that group.
According to its Terms and its Master Services Agreement, customers outside North and South America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand fall under Irish law with the courts of Dublin. The site Terms also contain a United States arbitration section with an opt-out, and a signed agreement takes precedence over those Terms. Check which document applies to your account.
The open-source software is free. Grafana Cloud lists a Free plan at $0, with 10,000 active series, 50 GB of logs and 14 days of retention, a Pro plan from $19 a month plus usage with 13 months of metrics retention and 30 days for logs and traces, and an Enterprise plan from $25,000 a year. Prices are in US dollars on its pricing page.
Checkmk Community is free, Pro starts at €190 a month and Ultimate at €275 a month on annual billing, for the smallest host bundle shown.
Centreon is free self-hosted up to 100 hosts, then €283 a month self-hosted or €425 a month as SaaS for 125 hosts, and €1,125 a month as SaaS for 250 hosts. PRTG lists PRTG 500 at $200 a month, PRTG 1000 at $358 and PRTG 2500 at $742 on annual billing, with a free 100-sensor edition and a 30-day trial.
Scaleway lists custom logs at €0.35 per GB, custom metrics at €0.15 per million samples and traces at €0.35 per GB, with data from Scaleway's own services included. Default retention is 31 days for metrics and 7 days for logs and traces, with extended retention priced separately. AppSignal has a free plan with 30,000 requests, 1 GB of logs and 5 days of retention, and paid plans from €219 a year (€18.25 a month billed yearly).
In three of them, yes, because they run Grafana: Scaleway Cockpit, openITCOCKPIT and Aiven for Grafana. Icinga also connects to Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB and Elasticsearch. In Zabbix, Checkmk, Centreon, PRTG and Elastic you rebuild dashboards in the tool's own interface, because a Grafana dashboard definition does not import into them.
Aiven is run by Aiven Oy of Helsinki, Business ID 2795743-5 in the Finnish trade register. Its terms are governed by Finnish law, with disputes settled by arbitration under the rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce. Aiven for Grafana is managed Grafana, listed from $35 a month with a 99.99% SLA.
Elastic N.V., whose privacy statement gives an address at Keizersgracht 281 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch holding company, and the cloud trial terms name elasticsearch B.V. as the party. Elastic also operates worldwide with large US activity, so check which entity your order form names. The core source code has been available under AGPLv3 as an option since September 2024.
AppSignal if you ship an application and want errors and performance without running anything, Scaleway Cockpit if your workloads are already at Scaleway, and Zabbix or Checkmk Community if you have a few servers and a spare machine. Centreon, Icinga and PRTG fit larger or more traditional IT estates.
It is a different class of product. ITRS Group Limited, a London company, sells Geneos for real-time application and infrastructure monitoring and Opsview for IT monitoring, mostly to large enterprises and with no public prices. It makes sense if you are already in a large organisation with an enterprise monitoring budget, not as a free dashboard for a small team.
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