Grafana is a platform for querying, visualising, and analysing metrics, logs, traces, and other operational data.
Rather than requiring organisations to move everything into a single datastore, Grafana can query many existing systems through its data-source architecture. Information from different sources can be combined in dashboards, while Explore provides an ad-hoc environment for investigating telemetry without first creating a permanent dashboard.
Grafana also includes alerting, dashboard variables, transformations, annotations, provisioning, and an extensive plugin ecosystem. It is widely used as a visualisation layer for observability stacks and can bring different telemetry signals together during troubleshooting and analysis.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Flexible dashboards with a broad range of visualisation panels.
- Supports metrics, logs, traces, databases, and many other data sources.
- Explore interface for ad-hoc querying and investigation.
- Mix queries from multiple data sources within a dashboard.
- Dashboard variables for creating dynamic and reusable views.
- Transformations for reshaping and combining query results.
- Unified alerting for creating and evaluating alert rules.
- Flexible notification routing for alerts.
- Annotations for adding events and other context to visualisations.
- Provision dashboards and data sources from configuration files.
- Extensive ecosystem of data-source, panel, and application plugins.
- APIs for automation and integration with other systems.
Website: github.com/grafana/grafana
Support:
Developer: Grafana Labs
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Grafana is written in TypeScript and Go. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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