AGPL-3.0
Grafana
Dashboards and visualization for observability
An open-source visualization and dashboarding tool that works with many metrics, logs, and tracing backends.
In depth
What it is
Grafana is an open-source visualization and dashboarding tool that works with many metrics, logs, and tracing backends.
Key features
- Dashboards - Dashboards and visualization across data sources.
- Data sources - Plugin ecosystem for metrics, logs, and traces backends.
- Alerting - Alert rules and notifications (deployment-dependent).
- Sharing - Sharing dashboards and views across teams.
Strengths
- Dashboards - Dashboards and visualization across data sources.
- Data sources - Plugin ecosystem for metrics, logs, and traces backends.
- Alerting - Alert rules and notifications (deployment-dependent).
Trade-offs
- Not a backend - Requires external backends for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Sprawl - Dashboard sprawl and inconsistent naming become common failure modes.
- Permissions - Multi-source permissions and RBAC can be complex.
Pricing
Open-source software. Direct license cost is zero; costs are typically infrastructure, operations, and optional paid support or hosting.
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