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MonitoringDevOps, CI/CD & containers

Dashboard and visualization platform for metrics, logs, and traces from any data source.

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  • Free installation
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At a glance
Version
Latest (11.x)
Operating system
Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
Minimum RAM
2 GB
License
AGPL-3.0
Addressing
IPv4, IPv6
GitHub
66,000
Deployment~4 min
Open source & self-hosted
VPS plans

Choose a VPS plan for Grafana

Blazing-fast NVMe drives and powerful processors. Take a ready-made plan or build the configuration yourself.
Minex
Perfect for personal projects and small websites.
€3.20/mo
Save €0.80 per month
  • 1 vCPU core
  • 1 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 20 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • 1 TB traffic
Basex
A great balance of power and affordable price.
€4.80/mo
Save €1.20 per month
  • 2 vCPU cores
  • 2 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 40 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • 2 TB traffic
Most popular
Corex
For growing applications and businesses.
€7.20/mo
Save €1.80 per month
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 4 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 50 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • Unlimited traffic
Midex
Resources for high-load projects.
€9.60/mo
Save €2.40 per month
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 6 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 60 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • Unlimited traffic
Proex
Maximum power and scalability.
€12.00/mo
Save €3.00 per month
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 8 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 70 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • Unlimited traffic
Scalex
Resources for scaling.
€16.00/mo
Save €4.00 per month
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 10 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 150 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • Unlimited traffic
Maxex
A large reserve of power.
€44.00/mo
Save €11.00 per month
  • 8 vCPU cores
  • 16 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • Unlimited traffic
Apex
The top configuration.
€79.99/mo
Save €20.00 per month
  • 16 vCPU cores
  • 32 GB DDR5 RAM
  • 400 GB NVMe SSD
  • Full root access
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • Unlimited traffic

What you can do with Grafana

Grafana is an open-source dashboarding platform that pulls metrics, logs, and traces from dozens of backends into a single, interactive view — built for DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform teams who need one screen to watch system health instead of switching between tools. Teams running Prometheus, Loki, or a mix of databases use it as the visual layer that ties monitoring data together.

What sets it apart from most observability tools is that it stays data-source-agnostic: one instance queries Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, and 150+ other sources without importing anything into a proprietary store. That's exactly why running it as Grafana self hosted matters — its value depends on fast, direct access to the databases it visualizes, and Grafana VPS hosting keeps that query path private instead of sending metrics through a third-party cloud.

Get started
The applications screen of the control panel with one-click install

Grafana features

A server surrounded by app icons — applications running on a VPS

After the Grafana installation completes, the platform is ready to connect data sources and build dashboards immediately — no separate configuration layer required.

01

Multi-source dashboards

Combine panels from Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, MySQL, and 150+ other data sources on a single screen.

02

Unified alerting

Set alert rules across different data sources and route them to Slack, email, PagerDuty, or a generic webhook.

03

Explore mode

Run ad hoc log and metric queries without first building a permanent dashboard.

04

Templated variables

One dashboard adapts to different hosts, services, or environments through dropdown filters.

05

Role-based access control

Folder- and dashboard-level permissions separate viewers, editors, and admins.

06

SSO integration

Authenticate users via OAuth2, LDAP, or SAML instead of managing local accounts.

07

Plugin ecosystem

Thousands of community panels, data sources, and apps extend the base install.

08

Annotations

Mark deploys, incidents, or config changes directly on the timeline for fast correlation.

Requirements

Which server to run it on

Minimum requirements for Grafana and the configuration worth starting with.
Minimum
  • CPU1 vCPU
  • Minimum RAM2 GB
  • Disk20 GB
Recommended
VPS Minex
  • CPU1 vCPU
  • Minimum RAM1 GB
  • Disk20 GB

Installation is free — you only pay for the server

Getting started

How to deploy Grafana

Three steps and the app is running on your server.
Step 1
Choose a server

Pick a plan with headroom beyond Grafana's own footprint — the right VPS for Grafana depends on whether you're also running Prometheus or Loki on the same instance.

Step 2
Pick the app

Choose Grafana from the catalog to install it on your VPS with a single click, no manual dependency setup.

Step 3
Get your credentials

Once deployment finishes, the panel provides the URL and initial admin credentials to log in and start connecting data sources.

Official websitegrafana.com
GitHub repositorygithub.com
Documentationgrafana.com
Why us

Why Host Grafana on Leneex

Speed, protection and support you can rely on — on every plan, with no hidden limits.
Deployment speed
A working Grafana one click install means dashboards are reachable within minutes of ordering, so you can wire up your first data source the same session instead of waiting on a manual server build.
Free installation
Hosting for Grafana costs nothing extra to set up — the €0 install fee matters here because most Grafana deployments are throwaway-cheap to run, and paying an installation surcharge on top would outweigh the VPS cost itself.
DDoS protection
If any dashboards get shared externally as public status pages or embedded panels, DDoS protection keeps that public-facing surface stable even though Grafana itself was built as an internal ops tool.
Control and support
Root and API access let you tune memory limits, plugin permissions, and reverse-proxy settings as dashboard count grows, backed by engineers who understand Prometheus/Loki-adjacent stacks, not just generic VPS support.
99.9% uptime with SLA compensation
Grafana is often the first screen an on-call engineer opens during an incident — if the dashboard layer itself is down, the team loses visibility exactly when it matters most, which is what the SLA compensation protects against.
Flexible payment
Card, crypto, or invoicing for legal entities covers both a solo engineer testing a Grafana instance and a company standardizing observability tooling across its infrastructure budget.
What to choose

Grafana: Self-Hosted vs Cloud — Which to Choose

We compare cost, control over your data and limits, so the choice is an informed one.
Grafana Cloud
Self-hosted on LeneexRecommended
Resources and limitsFree tier caps at ~10k metric series, 50GB logs, 14-day retention; more requires paid usageFull server capacity dedicated to your instance, no ingestion caps
Control and accessNo server access; configuration limited to what the UI/API exposeRoot access to the OS, config files, and plugin directory
Feature limitsEnterprise data-source plugins gated behind paid tiersFull OSS feature set, including Enterprise-style plugin installs from the community
ScalingScaling is billing-driven — more series, GB, or retention means a bigger monthly chargeUpgrade VPS resources on demand as dashboard/data source count grows
CostUsage-based: per-series metrics pricing, per-GB log/trace ingestion, plus a per-user platform feeFixed VPS price regardless of how much data you query or how many dashboards you build
Who it fitsTeams that want managed retention and storage without running their own time-series backendsTeams with existing Prometheus/Loki infrastructure who want predictable cost and no data leaving their network

Grafana Cloud's free tier works for light testing, but production observability setups tend to exceed its metric-series and retention limits quickly, at which point usage-based billing scales with every additional series or GB ingested. Choosing to deploy Grafana in one click on a fixed-price VPS avoids that variable cost curve entirely, provided you're already hosting the underlying Prometheus, Loki, or database sources yourself.

Frequently Asked Questions about Grafana on VPS

What people ask most about Grafana and our servers.

  • Yes — export dashboards as JSON via the built-in export function, or move the full /var/lib/grafana data directory (including the SQLite or external database) if you want users, folders, and permissions to carry over as-is.

  • Dashboards, data sources, and user accounts live on disk and are unaffected by a resource upgrade or downgrade — only available CPU/RAM for query performance changes.

  • A budget VPS comfortably serves a small team viewing a handful of dashboards, but concurrent heavy query load — many users hitting Prometheus or Loki through Grafana at once — is what determines the practical ceiling, not the app itself.

  • Version updates are the user's responsibility after a Grafana VPS Docker deployment, since Leneex provisions the initial one-click install but doesn't auto-upgrade the running container.

What's already configured

The one-click deployment installs Grafana OSS with its default embedded SQLite database and starts the service automatically — no manual database setup is needed to begin building dashboards. The web interface listens on port 3000 by default. No data sources are pre-connected — that step happens after first login, since Grafana ships as a visualization layer, not bundled with Prometheus or Loki.

First login

Grafana's default first-run credentials are username admin and password admin; the platform forces a password change on first login before granting further access. Locate the instance URL in the Leneex panel, open it in a browser, and complete the forced password reset before doing anything else.

Connecting your first data source

After login, go to Connections → Data sources and add Prometheus, Loki, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any other supported backend by entering its URL and, if required, authentication credentials — this is also where OAuth2 or LDAP settings for team-wide SSO get configured, in the grafana.ini file or via environment variables rather than the UI. Back up the data directory (or export dashboards as JSON individually) before any major version upgrade, since Grafana occasionally changes its internal storage schema between major releases.

Deploy Grafana in about 4 minutes

Choose a server — we do the rest: install, configure and send you the credentials.

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