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Grafana Labs: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Grafana Labs develops an open observability platform. Its core is Grafana, an open source web application for building dashboards from metrics, logs and traces; since 2021 it has been licensed under the AGPLv3. The company also maintains open source projects such as Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics, Pyroscope for profiling and k6 for load testing. Grafana Cloud is the company's managed platform, with support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. Grafana Enterprise is the self-managed edition with additional features such as LDAP team sync and reporting.

Grafana Labs, legally Raintank Inc., is headquartered in New York, in the United States. Grafana Cloud runs in regions of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, including Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland; an existing stack cannot be moved to another region. The underlying infrastructure therefore comes from US hyperscalers and the provider itself is American, which is relevant for the CLOUD Act. Because the core is open source, a European organisation can also run Grafana itself and keep the data under its own control.

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Sovereignty score

61 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-675
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 2, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category	Network & Monitoring
Type	Product
Website	grafana.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Grafana Labs

The European alternatives to Grafana Labs come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Grafana Labs hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Grafana Labs is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Grafana Labs together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Grafana Labs?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Grafana Labs include Pandora FMS, Uptrace and Hyperping. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Grafana Labs?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Grafana Labs include Pandora FMS and Uptrace. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Grafana Labs GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Grafana Labs is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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