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Grafana

Grafana is an open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore metrics, logs, and traces from a wide variety of data sources. Grafana is widely used for infrastructure and application monitoring, observability, and dashboarding.


🌟 Key Features

  • Data Source Agnostic: Supports many data sources including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Loki, and more.
  • Custom Dashboards: Create interactive and customizable dashboards with a wide range of visualization options (graphs, heatmaps, tables, etc.).
  • Alerting: Set up alerts and notifications based on your metrics.
  • Plugins: Extend functionality with community and official plugins for panels, data sources, and apps.
  • User Management: Supports authentication, authorization, and team collaboration.

🚀 Common Use Cases

  • Infrastructure and server monitoring
  • Application performance monitoring (APM)
  • Business analytics and reporting
  • IoT data visualization
  • Real-time log and trace analysis

🛠️ Getting Started



📝 Notes

  • Grafana is often used alongside Prometheus, Loki, and other observability tools.
  • Supports both on-premises and cloud-hosted deployments (Grafana Cloud).
  • Dashboards can be shared, exported, and version-controlled.