Grafana
The open observability platform — dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.
About Grafana
Grafana is the leading open-source observability and data visualization platform. It connects to any data source (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, etc.) and creates beautiful, interactive dashboards for monitoring infrastructure, applications, and business metrics. Grafana Cloud provides a managed, hosted version.
Key Features
- Interactive dashboards and visualization
- 100+ data source plugins
- Alerting engine
- Grafana Loki (log aggregation)
- Grafana Tempo (distributed tracing)
- Grafana Mimir (metrics at scale)
- Self-hostable (open-source)
- Grafana Cloud (managed service)
Pros
- Most powerful open-source visualization and dashboarding tool
- Connects to virtually any data source
- Massive plugin ecosystem and community
- Free to self-host with no limits
Cons
- Requires separate data sources — not a data collector itself
- Steep learning curve for advanced dashboards and alerting
- Self-hosting and maintaining the full LGTM stack is complex
Integrations
Best Use Cases
- Infrastructure monitoring dashboards
- Application performance visualization
- Business metrics and KPI dashboards
- Open-source observability stack (LGTM)
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Quick Info
- Website
- grafana.com
- Founded
- 2014
- Company
- 500-1000
- Pricing
- freemium
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