What is Grafana?
Grafana is a powerful open-source platform that reinvigorates the world of server metrics visualization. Serving as a comprehensive dashboard and graph editor, Grafana offers a rich and versatile canvas for seamlessly exploring time-series data from a multitude of sources. Its modular architecture and plugin-driven design enable seamless integration with popular data platforms like Graphite, InfluxDB, and OpenTSDB, as well as the flexibility to connect to various other data sources
Highlights
- Robust Visualization Capabilities: Grafana provides a wide array of customizable graph types, allowing users to create visually captivating and informative displays of server performance metrics, network traffic, application behavior, and more
- Flexible Data Integration: The platform's plugin-based architecture enables effortless integration with a diverse range of data sources, empowering users to bring together metrics from disparate systems into a unified dashboard
- Intuitive Dashboard Creation: Grafana's user-friendly interface and drag-and-drop functionality make it easy for users to construct personalized dashboards, tailoring the visualization to their specific needs and preferences
- Collaborative Features: The platform facilitates team-based collaboration, enabling multiple users to access, edit, and share dashboards, fostering a shared understanding of system performance and health.
Platforms
- Web
Social
Features
Change column spans and row heights
Import dashboard from Graphite
Use InfluxDB or Elasticsearch as dashboard storage
Import & export dashboard (json file)
Create, edit, save & search dashboards
Templating
Drag and drop panels to rearrange