Label and metric cardinality can inflate cost faster than usage forecasts.
Grafana
Clarify the right Grafana path for your observability signals
Grafana estates often grow by accretion: new data sources, dashboard sprawl, and rising cardinality. Teams sense cost and reliability risk before they have a coherent target architecture.
Cloud or self-managed Practical roadmap Cardinality aware Clear next steps
Why this matters
Why this matters
Without a shared roadmap, you duplicate effort, overload engineers with alerts, and make platform spend harder to defend.
Dashboards without standards slow incident response and onboarding.
OpenTelemetry adoption adds opportunity — and pipeline complexity — at the same time.
What you get
Clear outputs you can use
A focused assessment of your Grafana/LGTM posture: signal coverage, architecture options, cost drivers, and a prioritised plan for the next 90 days.
- ✓ Current-state architecture and gap analysis
- ✓ Cloud vs self-managed recommendation with trade-offs
- ✓ Prioritised initiative backlog (ingest, dashboards, alerts, governance)
Why teams talk to GKC
Calm, practical, and grounded in the environment you already have
Grounded in your tenants, data sources, and billing drivers
Independent of licence resale — architecture and delivery only
Aligned with OTel-first patterns where you are headed
What happens next
A straightforward first step
We keep the first step straightforward so you can understand fit, scope, and likely value before deciding what to do next.
1
Establish observability goals
We align on services in scope, SLO intent, and constraints (cost, skills, compliance).
2
Review stack, signals, and cost
We examine Mimir/Loki/Tempo or Cloud equivalents, cardinality hotspots, and alert/Dashboard hygiene.
3
Deliver the 90-day plan
You receive a roadmap you can execute internally or with GKC implementation engagements.
Questions teams often have
Common questions
We already pay for Grafana Cloud. Why assess?
Many teams under-use Cloud capabilities or over-pay via cardinality and retention misconfiguration. The assessment targets operational and commercial clarity.
Are you pushing migration from Datadog or Splunk?
No. We document coexistence options and only recommend migration where signals and ownership support it.
Can this stay technical — not a sales deck?
Yes. Outputs are for platform and SRE leads: architecture notes, backlog, and effort bands.
Related services
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Grafana
Loki Log Pipeline Optimisation
A scoped optimisation of your Loki ingest path: label strategy, retention, agents/collectors, and query patterns — with measurable before/after targets.
Value and Cost Clarity
Observability Health Check
The Observability Health Check is a focused review of how your current setup is performing, where value is being lost, and what to improve first.
OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
OpenTelemetry Maturity Assessment
A bounded assessment of your OTel instrumentation, collector topology, and backend alignment — with a prioritised adoption and remediation plan.
Next step
Start with a practical conversation
We can talk through the environment, what is making this feel urgent or uncertain, and whether this service is the right fit. If another starting point makes more sense, we will say so.