What is Grafana?
Grafana is a feature-rich, open source analytics and monitoring visualization suite. It integrates tightly with a variety of database technologies like Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and more to allow for easy exploration and visualization of time series data.
Some key capabilities and benefits of Grafana include:
- Intuitive graphical UI makes it easy for non-technical users to create dashboards
- Drill down capabilities allow users to dig deeper into metrics and narrow in on issues
- Annotations provide a way to mark key events on graphs and dashboards
- Customizable alert notifications help quickly identify and troubleshoot problems
- Visualizations can be shared with non-Grafana users easily
- Hundreds of data source plugins available to connect just about any time series database
- An active open source community contributes plugins and dashboards
Grafana is commonly used for infrastructure and application monitoring, Internet of Things data visualization, business analytics, and more. Its emphasis on being visual, flexible and easy-to-use makes Grafana a popular choice for organizations wanting deeper insight into their data and systems.