Diagrid Makes Dapr Ops Dashboard Free

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Diagrid, the company behind the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), has announced that Dapr Ops Dashboard is now free for every team. Every feature that previously required a paid plan, including cluster-level management operations, best practice advisories, incident failure alerts and multi-cluster management, is available today with no credit card and no trial period.

Dapr is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-graduated project already running in production at thousands of companies. Installing Dapr is the easy part; however, operational management across clusters takes ongoing visibility, expertise and monitoring. Most teams have historically covered this with scripts, hand-built Grafana boards and whatever time platform engineers could spare. Inspecting and acting on the hundreds of Dapr runtime metrics such as latency, error rates and API usage takes extensive expertise. Dapr Ops Dashboard removes the cost barrier to properly closing that gap.

“Free tooling isn’t a discount; it’s a statement about where we think the Dapr ecosystem needs to go next,” said Yaron Schneider, co-founder and CTO of Diagrid and chair of the Agentic AI Foundation Workflows Working Group. “Every team running Dapr in production deserves the same visibility and control that our largest customers have had for years. We built this platform alongside the Dapr project itself, and improving access removes the last reason a team would run Dapr without it. We will continue to upgrade the Dapr Ops Dashboard with each new Dapr release for the latest advisories and operational commands.”

Inside Dapr Ops Dashboard
Diagrid’s Dapr Ops Dashboard, formerly known as Conductor, is a SaaS control plane for Dapr on Kubernetes, where a lightweight agent in the cluster talks outbound to Diagrid Cloud. From one console or CLI, teams install, upgrade, observe and operate the Dapr control plane across clusters, on any Kubernetes distribution, without changing application code. Key capabilities include:

• Control-plane management: Install Dapr and its control plane, or attach to an existing install, then upgrade, downgrade, patch and sync control-plane configuration from the console or CLI. Upgrades can be scheduled, and failed updates can roll back with full transactional guarantees, never leaving the cluster in an unknown state. New Dapr versions are typically available within 24 hours of public release.
• Zero-downtime mTLS certificate rotation: Dapr service-to-service traffic uses mutual TLS, rotating certificates on a schedule and rolling the control plane and workloads so certificates don’t expire in production.
• Advisor: Continuously checks the cluster against 50-plus production best practices for security, reliability, observability and performance, flagging misconfigurations by severity.
• Observability: More than 150 Dapr metrics, 20-plus built-in graphs, real-time alerts, and diagnostics.
• Apps graph: Live topology of Dapr apps and infrastructure, including service invocation and pub/sub dependencies, with health and drill-down into a service or component.
• Existing tooling: Metrics API and Grafana export so the same telemetry can land in an existing observability stack.
• GitOps: Helm-backed install is the supported path for declarative/GitOps workflows.

Dapr Ops Dashboard is available today. Teams can sign up with an email address and connect a Kubernetes cluster directly, with no sales call, credit card or trial period required. Existing Conductor users are migrated automatically under the new name.