DevOps Monitoring · Estonia (EE)
Grafana Cloud
Observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces.
The switch
Datadog→Grafana Cloudalso replaces Splunk
About
Grafana Cloud offers a fully managed observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, and traces. It provides a scalable and reliable solution for monitoring complex systems.
Why we recommend it
- Unified observability
- Managed service
EU vs USA
Grafana Cloud vs Datadog
Side-by-side on jurisdiction, data residency, and the rules that decide who can actually read your data.
Criteria
🇪🇺 Grafana Cloud
🇺🇸 Datadog
Headquarters
Estonia
New York, NY, USA
Jurisdiction
Estonia
USA (CLOUD Act, FISA 702)
Data location
EU
Global, US-controlled (AWS)
GDPR-native
Yes
No
CLOUD Act / FISA exposed
No
Yes
Ad tracking
No
No
End-to-end encryption
No
No
Open source
Yes
No
Ownership
Grafana Labs
Datadog Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG)
Founded
2014
2010
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