I was using the Grafana Cloud free tier for a couple years, then they made some changes and started yelling at me about alerts I had set up based on Loki log searches. A new metric appeared in the usage dashboard...there were now limits for how I access the logs I've stored, on top of the limits for how much log data I could store.
I did figure out some ways to reduce the log query usage of the alerts and made the "you need to upgrade to a paid tier!" notices stop. Still, the experience was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'd already been getting somewhat frustrated by the 2 week retention and 10 dashboard limit.
FWIW, it wasn't too difficult to stand up the Docker containers for Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for my own usage.
I did figure out some ways to reduce the log query usage of the alerts and made the "you need to upgrade to a paid tier!" notices stop. Still, the experience was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'd already been getting somewhat frustrated by the 2 week retention and 10 dashboard limit.
FWIW, it wasn't too difficult to stand up the Docker containers for Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for my own usage.