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title: "Scale without operating the backend | Grafana Labs"
description: "Why running a self-managed observability backend gets harder as data grows, and what Grafana Cloud runs for you so tracing and profiling work at production scale."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Scale without operating the backend

Why running a self-managed observability backend gets harder as data grows, and what Grafana Cloud runs for you so tracing and profiling work at production scale.

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