Grafana is a terribly ran company that once made a pretty decent OSS dashboard system. Stay away from them for anything but some charts.
*until recently... the new "time series" panel is a disaster
What's a good all-in-one cloud monitoring solution that might optionally deal with logs as well?
Log monitoring is not actually a priority at this stage, I just want something to track metrics, chart them and to alert me when the servers are on fire.
Something open-source adjacent and not crazily expensive would be best. As I said I know Prometheus, but for some reason it's so flexible and free form I really do not enjoy using it.
For your use case, Coralogix is awesome. It comes with a managed Grafana instance, if you wish to use that interface, or a custom dashboarding solution, metric driven alarms, release tagging, and much more.
You can find out more at https://coralogix.com/platform/metrics/