QuickSight and Tableau are also per-user pricing, seems to be the norm.

Can you share more detail? in this pricing model, you only pay if you use the service in the last 30 days. for a company with 100 engineers most of which don't author dashboards this will be a few hundred USD a month for HA, Security, Ptaching, scaling - IMHO self managed engineering time will cost more

HA on Grafana isn't that difficult. The majority of Grafana is browser-side rendered data of queries which are just passed through Grafana to the data source. It's fairly light weight.

Security wise, as far as I know AWS isn't offering anything additional here.

The argument of "but you're paying to not have to worry about it!" that is a fair argument. But comments like this seem to purposely over-state the difficulty of running a not-super-complicated tool like Grafana in order to make "only $600/month, or $7.2k/year", sound more appealing.

I agree with this. I've been running a mission critical Grafana dashboard for a long time now. It took about 15 minutes to setup, and not once in 3+ years has there ever been any maintenance required.

Moving to a different server (or cloning for HA redundancy) takes maybe 5 minutes to copy the JSON and make a crontab entry. It's pretty much the lowest headache software imaginable.

Grafana is one of the easiest internal services to host.

They follow the 12-factor app principles, provide a ready-to-use docker image, support various auth providers ( my company uses GitHub), integrates well with AWS IAM, etc.

As someone else said here, you just have to use RDS to store the state.

Its Grafana, HA grafana isn't very hard. Just store state in RDS and you're done.