Grafana Beyla

Grafana Beyla deserves to be in the catalog because it solves a very specific and increasingly important part of observability infrastructure: getting application telemetry without language-agent sprawl or code changes. The official Grafana page positions Beyla as an open-source eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool for RED metrics and basic trace spans across Linux HTTP/S and gRPC services. That gives it a different role from a backend like Tempo or Mimir. Beyla sits closer to the instrumentation layer, especially for teams that want fast application observability coverage without deeply reworking service code.

Its pricing needs careful editorial framing because the software itself is open source, but the most obvious commercial path is Grafana Cloud Application Observability rather than a Beyla-specific SKU. Grafana's Application Observability billing documentation currently shows new-customer pricing at $0.025 per host hour, plus $0.50 per 1,000 active series, $0.50 per GB traces, $0.50 per GB logs, and $0.50 per GB profiles. That makes Beyla strongest as an OSS auto-instrumentation layer with a clear managed landing zone, not as a separately sold product.