name: Grafana API FinOps
specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Grafana Labs
providerId: grafana-com
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - FinOps
  - Cost Management
  - FOCUS
  - Observability
  - Telemetry
description: FOCUS-aligned FinOps definition for Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise. Telemetry-based metering
  across metrics (active series), logs/traces/profiles (GB ingested), Kubernetes (host hours), and active users
  (Grafana + IRM). Adaptive Metrics, Adaptive Logs, and Adaptive Telemetry provide built-in cost optimization.
sources:
  - https://grafana.com/pricing/
  - https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/
  - https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/understand-your-invoice/
  - https://grafana.com/products/cloud/cost-management/
alignedWith:
  framework: FinOps Foundation Framework
  frameworkUrl: https://www.finops.org/framework/
  dataSpec: FOCUS
  dataSpecVersion: '1.3'
  dataSpecUrl: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
publisherName: Grafana Labs
serviceCategory: Observability and Monitoring
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Usage-Based
  billingFrequency: Monthly
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
    - Usage
    - Purchase
    - Credit
    - Adjustment
  primaryUnit: telemetry-ingested
  secondaryUnits:
    - series
    - GB
    - host-hour
    - user
    - check
    - probe-execution
meteringDimensions:
  - id: metrics-active-series
    label: Metrics Active Series
    unit: series
    description: Prometheus / Mimir active series measured every 4 hours; billed per 1,000 active series.
    optimizations:
      - Adaptive Metrics (cardinality reduction, up to 80% savings)
      - Recording rules to pre-aggregate
  - id: logs-ingested
    label: Logs Ingested
    unit: GB
    description: Compressed log bytes received by Loki / Cloud Logs.
    optimizations:
      - Adaptive Logs (volume reduction ~50%)
      - Log filtering at Alloy/Promtail
  - id: traces-ingested
    label: Traces Ingested
    unit: GB
    description: Compressed trace bytes received by Tempo.
    optimizations:
      - Tail sampling in Alloy
      - Probabilistic sampling at SDK
  - id: profiles-ingested
    label: Profiles Ingested
    unit: GB
    description: Continuous profiling data ingested by Pyroscope.
  - id: kubernetes-host-hours
    label: Kubernetes Host Hours
    unit: host-hour
    description: Hourly billing per monitored Kubernetes node.
  - id: grafana-active-users
    label: Active Grafana Users
    unit: user
    description: Monthly active users who log in to the Grafana visualization layer.
  - id: irm-active-users
    label: Active IRM Users
    unit: user
    description: Monthly active users in the Incident Response Management suite (OnCall + Incident).
  - id: synthetic-check-executions
    label: Synthetic Check Executions
    unit: execution
    description: Number of synthetic probe runs executed per month.
costAllocation:
  tagging:
    supported: true
    notes: Per-stack tagging and per-tenant cost reporting via Grafana Cloud billing API.
  perStack: true
  perTenant: true
  perDataType: true
budgetsAndAlerts:
  spendAlerts: true
  usageAlerts: true
  notes: Configurable in Grafana Cloud billing console; surfaced through email and Slack.
reporting:
  api:
    name: Grafana Cloud Billing API
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/
    notes: Programmatic access via /orgs/<ORG_SLUG>/billed-usage and related Cloud API endpoints.
  console:
    name: Billing dashboard
    url: https://grafana.com/orgs
focusMapping:
  BilledCost: Monthly invoice line item per metering dimension
  ListUnitPrice: Per-unit price from grafana.com/pricing (per 1k series, per GB, per host-hour, per user)
  ConsumedUnit: series | GB | host-hour | user | execution
  ServiceCategory: Observability and Monitoring
  SubAccountId: Grafana Cloud stack slug
  BillingAccountId: Grafana Cloud organization slug
  ChargeCategory: Usage | Credit | Adjustment | Purchase
  ProviderName: Grafana Labs
  PublisherName: Grafana Labs