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Pricing change·Feb 16 → Feb 23, 2026·Week 9, 2026·Data & Analytics

Grafana splits observability pricing into Process/Write/Retain model

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What changed

Price increase

Kubernetes Monitoring container hour pricing increased from $0.001 to $0.007 per container hour ($0.50/container)

Metric change

Price list table updated to reflect monthly unit rates including new Process/Write/Retain breakdown for Logs, Traces, Profiles

Price decrease

Frontend Observability session pricing decreased from $0.90 to $0.75 per 1k sessions

Package change

Traces pricing model restructured from simple per-GB ingestion ($0.50/GB) to granular Process/Write/Retain model ($0.05 Process, $0.40 Write, $0.10 Retain)

Package change

Profiles pricing model restructured from simple per-GB ingestion ($0.50/GB) to granular Process/Write/Retain model ($0.05 Process, $0.40 Write, $0.10 Retain)

Package change

Logs pricing model restructured from simple per-GB ingestion ($0.50/GB) to granular Process/Write/Retain model ($0.05 Process, $0.40 Write, $0.10 Retain)

Price decrease

Application Observability host hour pricing decreased from $0.04 to $0.025 per host hour ($18/host)

Price decrease

Kubernetes Monitoring host hour pricing decreased from $0.015 to $0.01 per host hour ($7.20/host)

Price decrease

Price list updated Frontend Observability rate from $0.90 to $0.75 per 1k sessions

Positioning

Hero messaging changed from 'Built for scale. Priced for reality.' to 'Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it.'

Before and after

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Kubernetes Monitoring container hour pricing increased from $0.001 to $0.007 per container hour ($0.50/container)

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