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Grafana

Analytics and visualization dashboard platform

66.0K stars 300 contributors Since 2020
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Analytics and visualization dashboard platform

License
AGPL-3.0
Min RAM
512 MB
Min CPUs
1 core
Scaling
single_node
Complexity
intermediate
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
✓
K8s native
✓
Offline
✕
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none

Use cases

  • ✓ Primary: dashboard-building
  • ✓ Primary: data-visualization
  • ✓ Primary: alerting

Anti-patterns / when NOT to use

  • ✕ Not a data store itself
  • ✕ Plugin quality varies
  • ✕ Complex alerting setup
  • ✕ AGPL license implications

Integrates with

InfluxDB
Time-Series
TimescaleDB
Time-Series
PostgreSQL
Relational
Prometheus
Metrics
Jaeger
APM / Tracing
OpenTelemetry
Telemetry
Elasticsearch
Search
Loki
Logging
ClickHouse
Analytics DB

Complements

OpenTelemetry
Telemetry
Loki
Logging
Prometheus
Metrics
Jaeger
APM / Tracing

Compare with alternatives

Replaces / alternatives to

  • Datadog
  • Kibana
  • Tableau

Technical specs

Language
GoTypeScript
API type
REST
Protocols
HTTP
Deployment
dockerbinary

Community

GitHub stars 66.0K
Contributors 300
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing Grafana Labs
Funding open_core

Release

Latest version —
Last release —
Since 2020

Best fit

Team size
smallmediumenterprise
Industries
general

Tags

  • dashboards
  • visualization
  • alerting
  • multi-datasource
  • plugins
  • observability