Grafana Labs announced new updates that give organizations greater control over observability costs, more deployment flexibility, and enhanced compliance for mission-critical environments.
The updates include Adaptive Traces (generally available), Adaptive Profiles (private preview), Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), and the general availability of Grafana Federal Cloud with FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliance. These updates complement Grafana Labs’ other announcements, including new AI assistants and other updates that help every engineer reduce toil and resolve incidents faster while lowering the overall cost of observability.
By intelligently identifying high-value telemetry and filtering out the rest, Grafana Labs’ Adaptive Telemetry suite helps teams maximize observability ROI while reducing noise and cost.
With the GA of Adaptive Traces and the private preview launch of Adaptive Profiles, every major observability pillar is now covered – metrics, logs, traces, and profiles – making Grafana the first platform to deliver a complete adaptive observability solution.
- Adaptive Traces (GA): Adaptive Traces brings intelligent tail sampling to Grafana Cloud, letting teams capture only the traces that matter and giving teams faster insights at scale. With new custom policy management and Traces Drilldown integration, Adaptive Traces provides a powerful, closed-loop experience for prioritizing critical traces, filtering out noise, and accelerating root cause analysis.
- Adaptive Profiles (Private Preview): Adaptive Profiles helps teams capture the most valuable performance data from production workloads without overwhelming storage or budgets. By dynamically adjusting data collection based on workload behavior, Adaptive Profiles ensures deeper insights when issues arise, improving reliability while keeping costs predictable. Join our waitlist for early access to Adaptive Profiles.
“Before Adaptive Traces, we had two bad options: send everything and blow our budget, or send so little we couldn’t get meaningful insight,” said Geoff Schultz, Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, Auditboard. “Now tracing is actually usable — we can dial sampling up or down as needed, keep costs in check, and still give teams the visibility they need.”
With the complete Adaptive Telemetry suite, Grafana Labs is moving beyond cost savings into better outcomes: ensuring engineers always have the right signal at the right time, improving performance, and reducing toil while making observability more efficient and actionable.
Grafana BYOC gives enterprises a fully managed Grafana Cloud region running in their own AWS or GCP accounts, set up and operated by Grafana Labs. This unique model gives customers the operational simplicity of Grafana Cloud while allowing them to:
- Leverage their existing cloud provider discounts and spend commitments.
- Benefit from a capacity-based pricing model that offers predictable costs as they scale.
- Access the complete Grafana Cloud product suite, including IRM, Synthetics, Adaptive Telemetry, and AI tools like Grafana Assistant and Assistant Investigations.
“BYOC provides mega-scale customers a fundamentally new economic model for when traditional SaaS pricing stops making sense,” said Tom Wilkie, CTO at Grafana Labs. “We’ve spent years building and operating a cellularized, multi-region architecture designed for isolation and resilience. BYOC customers get the full benefits of Grafana Cloud, including all our Cloud-exclusive features like Adaptive Telemetry, combined with our operational expertise, without taking on the complexity of running it themselves.”
Now generally available, Grafana Federal Cloud is authorized at FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5), giving U.S. agencies and contractors a fully-managed, highly scalable observability platform built for mission-critical environments. Grafana Federal Cloud enables agencies to consolidate monitoring systems, reduce complexity, and accelerate mission readiness.
“Our open source technology has supported federal missions for years, but with FedRAMP High and IL5 compliance now in GA, agencies can deploy Grafana Federal Cloud with confidence knowing it meets the most stringent security and operational requirements,” said Brent Leech, Regional Vice President, Federal at Grafana Labs.
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