Grafana Support

24/7 Grafana Support with a 15-Minute Emergency SLA

AceMQ supports Grafana as production infrastructure, not as a nice-to-have — dashboards timing out against the datasource, alert rules flapping because nobody set a sensible for duration, SAML that broke on upgrade, and provisioned dashboards drifting from the repo that supposedly owns them. Every ticket reaches a named senior engineer.

Senior Grafana engineers on call right now — 24/7/365
15 min emergency SLA24 /7 global coverage130 + enterprise customers26 + countries served

Trusted for mission-critical Grafana by teams in finance, healthcare, defense, and telecom

Escalation Path

Your first hour of a Grafana outage

Most vendors publish an SLA number. This is what actually happens, minute by minute, when you page a senior AceMQ engineer.

T+0

You page us

Phone, email, or Slack — any channel reaches the on-call senior engineer directly. No web form, no tier-1 queue.

T+15

Named engineer live

A senior engineer who already knows your environment joins a live bridge. Zero cold-start, no re-explaining your topology.

T+30

Root cause isolated

Direct broker access, log and metric review, and a working hypothesis with a rollback plan before we touch anything.

Post

Written RCA

Documented root cause, the fix applied, and the prevention steps — delivered after every P1, not just when asked.

Response Times

SLA tiers, contractually guaranteed

Every tier reaches a senior Grafana engineer. There is no tier-1 triage layer to get through.

P1 — Emergency
15 min

Production down, messages not flowing, cluster or broker failure

P2 — Critical
1 hour

Severe degradation, rising error rates, approaching capacity limits

P3 — High
4 hours

Performance issues, configuration problems, non-critical failures

P4 — Standard
Next day

Questions, guidance, best practices, non-urgent improvements

Incident Triage

Grafana problems we fix every week

These are real symptoms from real Grafana production environments — and the first thing our engineers check when one comes in.

Dashboard times out or errors on a wide time range
What we check firstThe query inspector on the slowest panel, then the datasource side of that request. An unbounded range query with no recording rule behind it will scan far more series than the panel needs, and Grafana's timeout fires long before the datasource gives up.
Typical resolutionUnder 1 hour
Dashboard takes 30+ seconds to load with no single slow panel
What we check firstTemplate variable queries. A variable populated from a high-cardinality label runs before any panel renders, and repeated rows multiply every panel query by the number of values returned.
Typical resolution1–2 hours
Alerts flapping — firing and resolving every few minutes
What we check firstThe for duration and the evaluation interval against the metric's real noise profile. Most flapping rules have no for at all, so a single scrape at the threshold fires a page. No-data handling is the second usual cause.
Typical resolutionUnder 1 hour
Alert rules stopped firing after upgrading to unified alerting
What we check firstWhether the legacy rules were migrated, and where their notifications now route. Unified alerting replaces the dashboard-attached model with rule groups and notification policies, so migrated rules commonly land in a default policy that reaches nobody.
Typical resolution2–4 hours
Datasource returns 401, 403, or a proxy error only from Grafana
What we check firstWhether the request is going through the Grafana server proxy or straight from the browser, and which credentials each path presents. Server-side requests use the datasource's stored auth; browser-direct requests use the user's session, and only one of them usually works behind a corporate proxy.
Typical resolution1–2 hours
Provisioned dashboards keep reverting or refusing UI edits
What we check firstThe provisioning config and its allowUiUpdates setting. Dashboards loaded from disk are owned by the file, so every reload overwrites in-place edits — this is drift between the repo and what people are changing in the browser, not a bug.
Typical resolutionUnder 2 hours
SSO login loops or fails after an upgrade
What we check firstThe assertion or token claims Grafana is actually receiving, then role attribute mapping. Upgrades that tighten default settings — signed request requirements, stricter redirect URI matching, changed role mapping defaults — break logins that were working the day before.
Typical resolution1–3 hours
Scheduled reports and panel PNGs render blank or time out
What we check firstThe image renderer service — whether it is reachable from Grafana, whether it has enough memory, and whether it can resolve Grafana's own URL. Renderers commonly fail on the callback because root_url points somewhere the container cannot reach.
Typical resolutionSame day

Resolution times reflect typical Grafana engagements under an active AceMQ support contract. Every P1 closes with a written root-cause analysis.

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Support In Practice

Grafana problems we've already solved

Representative engagements showing how these incidents get diagnosed and closed under an AceMQ support contract.

Assessment

Stabilizing RabbitMQ on Kubernetes for Mission-Critical Airport Systems

Global Aviation Technology Provider

Troubleshooting cluster failover, partition handling, and quorum queue issues in a high-stakes aviation operational environment.

RabbitMQKubernetesQuorum Queues
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Remediation

RabbitMQ Performance Remediation for Telecom-Scale IoT

Global Telecom Leader

Resolving weekly RabbitMQ crashes, optimizing for 300,000+ connected devices, and architecting horizontal scaling strategy.

RabbitMQKubernetesQuorum Queues
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Remediation

Grafana Outage and Datasource Timeout Remediation

Telecommunications Operator

Remediation of a Grafana deployment that became unusable during incidents, with dashboards timing out exactly when engineers needed them most.

GrafanaPrometheusKubernetes
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Support

Grafana Alerting and Datasource Support

Energy Utility Operator

Ongoing support for Grafana unified alerting, notification routing, and datasource reliability across an operational monitoring estate.

GrafanaPrometheusAlertmanager
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Assessment

Grafana Dashboard Estate Assessment

Global Logistics Provider

Assessment of a sprawling Grafana dashboard estate to identify duplication, broken panels, and the small set of dashboards anyone actually uses.

GrafanaPrometheusAmazon S3
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Remediation

Prometheus Cardinality Explosion and OOM Remediation

Digital Commerce Platform

Emergency remediation of Prometheus servers being OOM-killed repeatedly after a deployment introduced an unbounded label.

PrometheusKubernetesGrafana
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Support

Prometheus Restart and WAL Replay Support

Global Payments Processor

Ongoing support for large Prometheus instances where restarts caused extended monitoring blind spots due to slow write-ahead log replay.

PrometheusThanosKubernetes
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Assessment

Prometheus Scrape and Federation Architecture Assessment

Industrial Automation Manufacturer

Assessment of a Prometheus federation topology that had grown past its limits, causing gaps and duplicated data across sites.

PrometheusGrafanaKubernetes
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What's Included

Everything in your Grafana support contract

No add-on pricing for incidents. No per-ticket charges. One contract covers the whole surface.

Emergency Incident Response

Grafana down, alerting silent, or dashboards dark during an incident on another system. A senior engineer joins a live bridge within 15 minutes — losing your observability layer mid-incident is a P1 in its own right.

Alerting Design & Migration

Unified alerting migration, rule groups, notification policies, contact points, and silences. We tune for duration, no-data handling, and grouping so the pages your team receives are ones worth waking up for.

Dashboard & Query Performance

Query rewrites, recording rules pushed down to the datasource, template variable design, and panel count discipline. Most slow dashboards are a query cost problem rather than a Grafana problem.

Datasource & Stack Integration

Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, and SQL datasources — auth, proxying, TLS, and correlation between metrics, logs, and traces so a trace ID actually links to its logs.

Provisioning & Dashboards as Code

File and API provisioning, Terraform-managed dashboards and alert rules, and resolving the drift that appears the moment people start editing in the UI. Version control that survives contact with real users.

SSO, RBAC & Upgrade Support

SAML, OAuth, LDAP, and OIDC configuration, team and folder permissions, and version upgrades — including the plugin compatibility breaks that upgrades regularly surface.

Anywhere You Run It

We support Grafana wherever it's deployed

Cloud, Kubernetes, bare metal, hybrid, and air-gapped — including environments where you can't give us outbound network access.

Grafana CloudGrafana Enterprise (self-hosted)Grafana OSS (self-hosted)Kubernetes & OpenShift (Helm, Operator)AWS (EC2, EKS, Amazon Managed Grafana)Microsoft Azure (AKS)Google Cloud (GKE)VMware vSphere & TanzuBare metal & on-premiseAir-gapped / no outbound accessGrafana 9.x, 10.x, 11.x and 12.xLoki, Tempo, Mimir & Pyroscope
Why AceMQ

What you get that you don't get elsewhere

Named Engineers, Zero Cold Start

The same senior engineers stay on your account. They know your datasources, your alert routing, and which dashboards your on-call actually opens — so a P1 starts with diagnosis rather than orientation.

No Tier-1 Triage Layer

You reach a senior engineer directly by phone, email, or Slack. Nobody collects details to pass along, and there is no escalation approval standing between you and the person who can fix it.

We Fix the Datasource, Not Just the Panel

A slow Grafana is nearly always a slow query against Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, or a warehouse. We work on both sides of that boundary, which is why the fix usually holds instead of moving the timeout.

Alerting That Reduces Pages, Not Adds Them

We treat alert fatigue as a defect. Every alerting engagement includes pruning rules that never led to action, setting for durations against real noise, and routing so the right team gets paged once rather than everyone getting paged three times.

Genuine Follow-the-Sun Coverage

Engineers across 26+ countries and every time zone. Your 3am outage is someone's mid-afternoon — no overnight skeleton crew, no waiting for a region to come online.

The Whole Observability Stack

Grafana rarely fails alone. We support the Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir underneath it, and the Kubernetes it all runs on — so nobody hands you back a ticket saying the problem is somewhere else.

FAQ

Grafana support questions

When Grafana Goes Dark, Every Other Incident Gets Longer

Whether you need emergency response tonight or a support contract that keeps your observability layer trustworthy, AceMQ staffs every engagement with a named senior Grafana engineer. Support quotes returned within 24 hours.

Get in Touch

Talk to a Support Expert

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