Grafana
Grafana is an open-source, multi-platform analytics and interactive visualization web application that provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. It is widely used for monitoring, observability, and data exploration, offering a unified view across…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2014
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Grafana was created to address the significant pain point of fragmented monitoring and visualization across diverse data sources. Before Grafana, engineers often had to use separate, often proprietary, tools for visualizing metrics from different databases (e.g., Graphite dashboards for Graphite, Kibana for Elasticsearch). Grafana provided a single, open-source, highly customizable platform capable of connecting to and visualizing data from virtually any data source, thereby unifying observability.
- Platforms
- Kubernetes, Windows, Linux, macOS, Docker
Related technologies
Notable users
- Netflix
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure (via managed services)
- SAP
- DigitalOcean
- Many enterprises across technology, finance, retail, and IoT sectors
- Google Cloud
- Uber