Grafana is a leading open-source observability platform designed to visualize and analyze metrics, logs, and traces. It enables users to create customizable dashboards, set up alerts, and explore data from various sources, making it a powerful alternative to commercial tools like DataDog and NewRelic.
Key features include:
- Data Visualization: Create flexible and reusable dashboards with a wide range of panels, including graphs, heatmaps, and gauges.
- Data Source Integration: Connect to numerous data sources like Prometheus, Graphite, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and more.
- Alerting: Define alerting rules based on data patterns and receive notifications via various channels.
- Explore Mode: Investigate data through ad-hoc queries and drill-downs to identify root causes.
- Plugins: Extend functionality with a rich ecosystem of plugins for data sources, panels, and apps.
- AI/ML Insights: Identify anomalies and reduce toil with AI/ML-powered tools.
Grafana's use cases span across:
- Infrastructure Monitoring: Track the health and performance of servers, networks, and cloud resources.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Monitor application metrics, logs, and traces to identify bottlenecks and errors.
- DevOps: Visualize CI/CD pipeline metrics and automate incident response.
- Business Intelligence: Create dashboards to track key business metrics and KPIs.
