What is Grafana?¶
Grafana is a very popular tool used to build dashboards to monitor applications, infrastructures, and software components.
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Query, visualize, alert on, and understand your data no matter where it’s stored. With Grafana you can create, explore and share all of your data through beautiful, flexible dashboards.
Unify your data, not your database¶
Grafana doesn’t require you to ingest data to a backend store or vendor database. Instead, Grafana takes a unique approach to providing a “single-pane-of-glass” by unifying your existing data, wherever it lives.
Open Source, Cloud and Enterprise¶
Grafana is available as open source self-managed, fully managed observability stack in Cloud and self-managed Enterprise versions.
Plugins¶
Connect your tools and your teams with Grafana plugins. Data source plugins hook into existing data sources via APIs and render the data in real time without requiring you to migrate or ingest your data.