Grafana
Category: InfrastructureDate Added: 4/2/2025Sovereignty: 5/5Expertise: 4/5
Open-source analytics and monitoring platform with beautiful dashboards and extensive data source support
Grafana is a leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.
Advantages
- Supports a wide variety of data sources (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Highly customizable dashboards with rich visualization options
- Powerful alerting engine to notify on critical metric changes
- Extensible via a large ecosystem of plugins and integrations
- Active open-source community and optional enterprise support
Use Cases
- Infrastructure visualization and monitoring
- Security operations dashboards
- Business analytics interfaces
Alternatives
- Kibana (Elastic Stack) (Sovereignty: 4)
- Datadog (Sovereignty: 1)
- Splunk (Sovereignty: 1)
Installation Steps
- Install Grafana using package manager, Docker, or binary download
- Start the Grafana server service
- Access the web UI (default: http://localhost:3000)
- Log in with default credentials (admin/admin) and change password
- Add data sources (e.g., Prometheus, InfluxDB)
- Create dashboards and panels to visualize data
Resources
Tags:
- #infrastructure