Grafana

Grafana is an open-source monitoring tool that visualizes metrics and logs from many data sources in dashboards.

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Grafana is an open-source visualization and monitoring tool created by Torkel Ödegaard, first released in 2014 and developed by Grafana Labs. It connects to many data sources, including Prometheus and Elasticsearch, to build graphs and dashboards and to configure alerts.

It is widely used as the visualization layer in observability stacks and is often paired with the company's own data stores, such as Loki, Tempo and Mimir.

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Short-lived test processes send the metrics through Prometheus Pushgateway; Grafana Alloy then collects and routes them to Grafana Cloud.

Grafana supplies visualization and alerting.


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