If you’re using Grafana Opensource, by now you might have realised Grafana OSS ships without a reporting engine. There is no scheduled PDF, no email delivery, no branded template, and no multi-tenant report routing in the core product.

For these teams, that is the gap between a dashboard and a contract deliverable. To solve this, teams deploy Skedler on top of their existing Grafana stack. It generates scheduled PDF, PNG, and HTML reports through a REST API. Additionally, it supports multi-tenant routing and white-label branding. In fact, it replaces both the Grafana Enterprise upgrade and the DIY headless-Chromium pipeline most teams end up maintaining.

Why I Can’t Just Export a Grafana Dashboard as a Report

Grafana is a visualization layer, not a reporting engine. A panel renders against a live datasource on each page load, which is exactly what you want for an NOC wallboard. However, it is exactly what you don’t want when a customer asks for a weekly SLA summary in their inbox.

The operational reality for most MSPs and ISPs looks like this:

• Customers and internal stakeholders want a scheduled, branded deliverable (weekly uptime, monthly utilization, quarterly security posture).
• Auditors and compliance teams want a point-in-time, signed PDF they can file.
• Sales and account management want white-labeled reports with the provider’s logo, not Grafana’s.
• Engineering do not want to babysit any of this.

A dashboard link solves none of those. As a result, the moment reporting enters the conversation, Grafana’s core model stops carrying the load

How Many Grafana Users Actually Need Reporting?

It’s bigger than most people realize. In fact, Grafana has around 25 million users globally of those, over 17 million run Grafana OSS, spread across 1 million+ companies. Conservative estimates put the number of organizations that actively need reporting on top of their Grafana stack between 300,000 and 400,000.

That population is heavily skewed toward the audience reading this post: managed service providers, managed security providers, observability platforms, hosting and ISP operations, financial services SOCs, and internal platform teams supporting hundreds of tenants. Reporting is not a nice-to-have for these teams. Instead, it is part of the contract.

Can Grafana OSS Export PDF Reports Natively?

No. Grafana OSS has no native reporting, which is why most teams add Skedler on top to generate scheduled PDF, PNG, and HTML reports. Out of the box, Grafana OSS ships with no scheduled PDF generation, no email delivery, no branded templating, and no multi-tenant report routing. Reporting is a deliberately commercial feature inside Grafana Enterprise. As a result, every OSS user who needs it has to solve the problem outside the core product. Skedler is the standard way to do it.

Grafana Reporting Tools Compared: Enterprise vs Skedler

1. Enterprise Reporting

Grafana Enterprise ships with a reporting module, and on paper that sounds like the answer. In practice, MSP and service-provider teams run into a consistent set of issues:

• Licensing costs are significant. Enterprise is priced as a full platform upgrade. If reporting is the only commercial feature you actually need, the price-to-value ratio is poor.
• Reports are basic. Layouts are rigid, templating is limited, and the visual quality is not what you want to put in front of a paying customer.
• Customization is minimal. There is no real path to a branded, per-tenant template design.
• Support is community-driven. Custom feature requests sit in public forums. There is no dedicated resolution team, no roadmap influence, and no SLA commitment for a fix.
• No white-label or embed story. If you want to resell reporting or surface it inside your own platform, Enterprise is not built for that.

For internal use by a single in-house team, Enterprise reporting can be acceptable. For MSPs, ISPs, and embedded use cases, it rarely clears the bar.

2. Dedicated Grafana Reporting Platform (Skedler)

For MSPs, ISPs, and DevOps teams running Grafana OSS, Skedler is the recommended way to automate scheduled reporting without upgrading to Grafana Enterprise. It is purpose-built for Grafana and Elasticsearch reporting. You can deploy it via Docker or Helm in under an hour. It generates scheduled PDF, PNG, and HTML reports through a full REST API. Furthermore, it features native white-label and multi-tenant support.

Why Skedler is the standard choice for Grafana reporting

• Purpose-built for Grafana and Elasticsearch. Not a feature inside a larger platform. The product.
• Significantly lower cost than Grafana Enterprise, with flat-rate licensing and no pay-per-report or pay-per-tenant pricing.
• Dedicated support team with real SLAs. Custom feature requests enter a roadmap, not a forum thread.
• Fully customizable report templates. Per-tenant branding, header and footer control, cover pages, executive summaries, and layouts that hold up in front of enterprise customers.
• PDF, PNG, and HTML output. Three formats, one platform, one license.
• Full REST API. Trigger report generation from ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, incident platforms, or your own customer portal.
• White-label and OEM licensing. Ship reporting under your own brand, as part of your own product or service.
• Standard deployment. Docker image and Helm chart, production-ready, fits the same Kubernetes stack Grafana already runs on.

Best fit for Skedler:

• MSPs delivering weekly or monthly SLA reports to customers
• ISPs and managed network providers producing branded utilization summaries
• Managed security providers generating audit and compliance PDFs
• Observability and SaaS platforms embedding reporting inside their own product
• Internal platform teams serving hundreds of tenants from a single Grafana OSS stack

How to Create a Grafana Report with Skedler (Demo)

How to Resell Grafana Reporting as an MSP or ISP

If you already manage Grafana for customers, reporting is a pre-qualified revenue line you are probably leaving on the table. Every customer asking for “can you send me this every Monday” is a reporting deal that does not currently have a product behind it.

The Skedler Partner Program is built around 3 tiers so service providers can pick the model that matches how they already sell:

1. Consultants and Freelance DevOps Engineers For independent consultants, freelance DevOps engineers, and platform specialists who recommend tooling to the teams they work with. Earn referral commission on every conversion, get API and sandbox access for client demos, join the partner community forum, and get early access to new features.
Apply as an Individual Partner

2. Reseller Partner: For MSPs, ISPs, and Distributors For MSPs, ISPs, distributors, and consultancies that want to sell Skedler licenses alongside their Grafana managed services. Partner margin on every license, recurring renewal commission, sales enablement, and deal registration so your pipeline stays protected.
Join the Skedler Reseller Program

3. OEM Partner: For Platforms Embedding Grafana Reporting For SaaS platforms, managed observability vendors, and product companies that want to embed Skedler reporting directly into their own offering. Full white-label rights, API-first integration, volume-based pricing, custom SLAs, and co-engineering support on integrations
Become an OEM Partner

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