Run the three pillars of observability on one VPS — Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, and Tempo distributed traces — all unified in Grafana. 80% cheaper than Datadog with unlimited data.
Datadog charges $15+/host/month. New Relic $25+/user. Grafana Cloud charges per metric series and log GB. Self-hosted observability on a VPS covers unlimited hosts and unlimited data at flat monthly cost.
Scrape unlimited metric series from unlimited hosts. No Grafana Cloud $8/10k series billing. Configure retention, alerting, and federation exactly as needed.
Label-indexed log storage — 10x cheaper than Elasticsearch for logs. LogQL queries alongside metrics in Grafana. Promtail ships logs from all servers.
Grafana Tempo stores OpenTelemetry traces. Identify latency bottlenecks across microservices. Correlate traces with logs and metrics in single Grafana view.
Single Grafana instance queries Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo simultaneously. Click from metric spike to correlated logs to distributed trace — true root cause analysis.
Everything you need — installed and configured on your VPS in minutes.
SSH in and follow these commands. Your stack will be live in under 10 minutes.
AMD Ryzen CPUs, DDR5 RAM, NVMe SSD, and 10 Gbps network — the infrastructure your workload deserves.
Unlimited metric series, unlimited hosts, configurable retention — no per-series billing. PromQL for powerful metric queries and alert rules. AlertManager for smart alert routing.
Label-indexed storage means Loki is far cheaper than Elasticsearch for logs. LogQL queries alongside Prometheus metrics in Grafana. Promtail agent ships logs from every server.
Grafana Tempo stores OpenTelemetry traces from instrumented services. Identify slow DB queries and external API calls. Correlate traces with logs and metrics in one Grafana panel.
Click from a Prometheus metric anomaly to correlated Loki logs to the Tempo distributed trace. Full root cause analysis from a single Grafana instance.
Route alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, email, Telegram by severity and team. Deduplication, grouping, and silences prevent alert storms.
Datadog: $15+/host. New Relic: $25+/user. Grafana Cloud: metered. Self-hosted on $7/mo VPS: unlimited everything for a fraction of the cost.
See how Host4Fun Cloud VPS stacks up against the alternatives.
| Feature | Host4Fun VPS | Datadog | New Relic | Grafana Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metrics | Unlimited | $15+/host | $25+/user | per series |
| Logs | Loki | $0.10+/GB | metered | 50GB free |
| Traces | Tempo | metered | metered | metered |
| Monthly Cost | $7–$14/mo | $15+/host | $25+/user | $8+/10k series |
What developers and teams are building.
Monitor all servers, Docker containers, and databases from one Grafana instance — CPU, memory, disk, network correlated in unified dashboards.
OpenTelemetry-instrumented microservices send traces to Tempo, logs to Loki, metrics to Prometheus — complete application observability.
Unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, role-based access — without Datadog's per-host billing that scales unpredictably.
Learn all three observability pillars hands-on. Real Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo deployment for SRE certification prep.
Collect authentication logs and access events. Kibana-style log search with LogQL. Alert on suspicious authentication patterns.
Collect metrics and logs from distributed IoT devices. Prometheus remote_write from edge nodes. Centralized observability for distributed deployments.
All plans include AMD Ryzen CPU, DDR5 RAM, NVMe SSD, DDoS protection, and free SSL. No hidden fees.
Deploy close to your users for the lowest possible latency.
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Metrics (what is happening — rates, errors, latency from Prometheus), Logs (what happened — from Loki), and Traces (why — distributed request path from Tempo). Grafana connects all three for correlated root cause analysis.
Yes — Professional plan ($14/mo, 4 GB DDR5) runs Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Tempo via Docker Compose. Basic ($7/mo, 2 GB) handles metrics + logs only.
CNCF standard for instrumentation. Auto-instrument Node.js, Python, Java, Go services to emit metrics, logs, and traces. Configure OTel Collector to route to your self-hosted Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo.
Loki indexes only labels — much cheaper storage than Elasticsearch. Query with LogQL in Grafana. Choose Elasticsearch when you need full-text search across log content. For observability, Loki is the better choice.
Open-source distributed tracing backend compatible with Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenTelemetry. Stores traces on local disk or object storage. Grafana connects Tempo traces to Loki logs and Prometheus metrics.
Use OpenTelemetry SDK for your language. Auto-instrumentation packages exist for Node.js, Python, Java, Go. Configure OTLP exporter to your Tempo endpoint. Traces appear in Grafana immediately.
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