Would it be possible to have a split offering, with both on prem and cloud? In my mind I would prefer to have things like Prometheus, Logs, and Metrics stored on prem mainly due to the volume of logs and metrics we create. Then use Grafana cloud for Grafana Dashboards, Loki logs, and incident management that pull directly from my on prem data stores. I bring this up as it may be cost prohibitive for us to store our metrics in the cloud ( we make so many metrics and logs! ) but I would love to off load hosting the front end. Grafana cloud takes care of managing and maintaining Grafana Dashboard and backend database, Authentication, updates, ect. I'm fine hosting Prometheus and Loki locally, have been for a long time! I just get annoyed having to host Grafana and setting it up, the database up, configuring auth, etc.

> It's a bit tricky, so we can't say when....

I'm curious about this part, and I can absolutely understand if you don't want to answer but I do have the following question:

Why is it tricky to ensure an application can run on a cloud deployed system or a local Kubernetes/Docker Swarm/newfangle containerization mechanism of choice/etc. system?

Specifically I'm wondering what barriers you're running into that are pushing the focus to go cloud only.

Is there any hope of a Grafana Cloud data access proxy that runs on prem and enables us to give the Cloud access to databases we cannot expose?

Have you heard of Replicated.com before? They might be able to get y'all to both on premise and in the cloud at the same time easier