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
📚 Useful Links
📝 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.