Deploy Grafana in one click.
The open-source observability dashboard. We review it, secure it and run it in production for you. Pick a region in Switzerland, France or Germany, and reach data sources behind your firewall through a secure tunnel. We keep it patched, backed up and online. You just build dashboards.
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What is Grafana?
The de-facto standard for open-source dashboards, and the observability layer for the rest of your stack.
Grafana is the open-source standard for observability dashboards. It queries metrics, logs and traces where they live: Prometheus, Loki, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and dozens of other data sources. It turns them into dashboards your whole team shares, with alerting built in and dashboards definable as code.
Your Grafana is a map of your infrastructure: what runs where, what matters enough to alert on, and credentials to every data source it reads. Self-hosting keeps that map, and those credentials, on infrastructure you control instead of a third-party monitoring vendor’s cloud.
The catch: the tool that watches everything else needs someone to watch it. Reverse proxy, TLS, authentication, a steady release cadence to track, security patches, backups of every dashboard and alert rule your team relies on. That someone is usually you, at the worst possible time.
Grafana, without the ops.
Everything below is what you’d otherwise build and babysit yourself.
Your dashboards stay where you put them.
Deploy to ch-zh1 (Zurich), fr-pa1 (Paris) or de-fr1 (Frankfurt). Dashboards, users, alert rules and data source credentials stay in the region you choose, under Swiss or EU law and in line with GDPR.
Reviewed before it ships.
Our Grafana package is reviewed, secured and locked to versions we have tested, and it ships with a runbook. We track CVEs upstream and patch them fast.
Monitor what’s behind your firewall.
Your Prometheus, your databases, your on-prem systems: we drop in a secure tunnel so Grafana reads them without you exposing anything to the internet. Your metrics never leave your own network.
TLS, upgrades, scaling: handled.
Certificates issued and renewed, rolling zero-downtime updates, instant rollback, health checks. Grafana releases steadily; we keep you current without breaking your team’s dashboards.
Backups you can actually restore.
Offsite backups of your dashboards, data sources, users and alert rules. We run restore drills, not just snapshots.
Leave whenever you want.
Grafana is open source and so is your exit: dashboards are plain JSON and your configuration leaves with you, in usable form. Pilae runs it for you. It never owns it.
Self-hosting Grafana: DIY vs Pilae.
Both paths end with Grafana in production. Only one of them ends there this afternoon.
| Self-hosted DIY | On Pilae | |
|---|---|---|
| Initial setup | Docker, reverse proxy, DNS, auth. An afternoon if nothing fights back | One click, live in minutes |
| TLS certificates | Issue, wire up, remember to renew | Issued and renewed automatically |
| Upgrades | Frequent releases to track, test and apply yourself | Tested versions, rolled out with instant rollback |
| Security patching | You watch the CVE feed | Upstream tracked, CVEs prioritized |
| Backups | cron + object storage + hope | Offsite, verified with restore drills |
| Data residency | Wherever your VPS happens to be | You pick: Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, or your own racks |
| 3 a.m. failures | Yours | Ours |
| Reaching on-prem data sources | VPN, jump hosts, or exposed endpoints | Secure tunnel; metrics stay inside your own network |
| Team access & SSO | Wire up OAuth and permissions yourself | Secure defaults; SSO via Keycloak from the same catalog |
From catalog to production in three steps.
No servers to set up, no configuration to write. The platform work is already done.
Pick Grafana.
Find it in the catalog: reviewed, secured, locked to tested versions, runbook included.
Choose where it runs.
A Pilae region in Switzerland, France or Germany, or your own machine connected through a secure tunnel. Same console either way.
Deploy and wire your data sources.
One click to production with TLS and backups from day one. Point Grafana at Prometheus, your databases or anything else it speaks to, invite your team, done.
Your dashboards map your whole infrastructure. Keep them close.
Every Grafana deployment is pinned to the region you choose. Encryption, dedicated VLANs, and the option to hold your own encryption keys for regulated workloads, plus a secure tunnel to the systems it monitors.
Deploying Grafana: the questions we get.
If yours isn’t here, reach out and we’ll answer it, usually the same day.
What’s the easiest way to self-host Grafana?
Deploying it through a managed platform. On Pilae you pick Grafana from the catalog, choose a region, and click deploy. TLS, backups, patching and upgrades are handled for you from the first minute. You get self-hosting’s control without its ops.
Can Grafana connect to Prometheus?
Yes. Prometheus is a built-in data source, alongside Loki, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch and dozens of others. With Pilae’s secure tunnel, Grafana can read a Prometheus running inside your own network without you exposing it to the internet.
Can Grafana monitor servers inside my private network?
Yes. We drop in a secure tunnel between your Grafana deployment and your own machines, so it reaches data sources behind your firewall. Your metrics stay inside your own network; only the dashboards are served from your Pilae region.
Where does my Grafana data live?
In the region you choose: Zurich, Paris or Frankfurt. Dashboards, users, alert rules and data source credentials stay there, encrypted. For regulated workloads you can hold your own encryption keys. The underlying metrics stay wherever your data sources live.
Does self-hosted Grafana support teams, permissions and SSO?
Yes. Open-source Grafana has organizations, teams and dashboard-level permissions built in, and speaks OAuth for single sign-on. Deploy Keycloak from the same catalog and put OIDC in front of it. Same console, same one-click deploys.
Can I move my Grafana deployment off Pilae later?
Yes, and that’s by design. Grafana is open source, dashboards are plain JSON, and your configuration and users exit with you in usable form. No proprietary formats, no lock-in.
Runs well next to.
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Single sign-on, OIDC and SAML. The identity layer for the rest of the stack.
Ask questions of your data, build dashboards, share with the team.
Grafana, without the ops.
Deploy it in minutes, keep your data in the country you choose, and leave whenever you want. Your data goes with you.