Grafana

Grafana is an open-source visualization and analytics platform for monitoring metrics, logs, and traces.

What is Grafana?

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability that allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand metrics from multiple data sources through customizable dashboards.

Grafana Features

Dashboards: Customizable visualizations
Panels: Charts, graphs, tables
Data Sources: Connect to various backends
Alerts: Threshold-based notifications
Annotations: Mark events on graphs
Templating: Dynamic, reusable dashboards

Grafana Data Sources

Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and many more.

Common Misconceptions

"Grafana stores data" - Visualization layer only
"Grafana only works with Prometheus" - Supports many sources
"Grafana is hard to learn" - Intuitive interface