Amazon Managed Grafana
Managed Grafana
Managed Grafana for building dashboards from many data sources (CloudWatch, Prometheus, X-Ray, OpenSearch…), with sign-in via IAM Identity Center or SAML, without running your own servers.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?No
- Managed by AWS
Think of it asLike renting a ready-made control screen that gathers readings from every machine in the factory.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
Teams already familiar with Grafana that need multi-source dashboards.
✗ Avoid it when
Only need basic AWS metric dashboards → CloudWatch dashboard.
Common uses
- EKS metric dashboards from Prometheus
- Bring CloudWatch from many accounts into one place
- Alerts based on multiple data sources
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Charged by the number of active users (editor/admin and viewer) per month in the workspace.
