Grafana

Grafana

Open-source observability platform for visualizing, analyzing, and monitoring metrics, logs, and traces

By Grafana Labs

Observability Monitoring Dashboards Visualization

Product Overview

Grafana is a leading open-source observability platform for monitoring and analytics. It enables users to query, visualize, and alert on metrics, logs, and traces. Supports a wide range of data sources including cloud platforms, databases, and APIs. Widely used for infrastructure monitoring, application performance, and business intelligence dashboards.

Provides a unified view of distributed systems and business data. Supports DevOps, SRE, and business teams with real-time insights. Offers extensibility through plugins and integrations. Available in open-source, cloud, and enterprise deployments, Grafana helps organizations visualize complex datasets in customizable dashboards for enhanced operational intelligence and decision-making.

Headquarters and Est. In

New York, United States — Est. 2014

No. of Employees

1001-5000

Customer Demography

Global

Customer Domains

Technology Banking Healthcare Retail

Use Case Deep Dive

Interactive analysis dashboard - explore detailed performance insights for key business scenarios

Unified Infrastructure Monitoring

Centralize infrastructure monitoring across on-premises and cloud environments.

Application Troubleshooting

Rapidly debug application issues by correlating logs, metrics, and traces.

Multi-Cloud Monitoring

Monitor performance and availability across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms.

Database Performance Monitoring

Track database health with query, latency, and load monitoring.

Network Performance Monitoring

Monitor network traffic, latency, and detect outages.

Kubernetes Cluster Monitoring

Comprehensive monitoring of Kubernetes pods, nodes, and clusters.

Incident Management Integration

Integrate Grafana alerts with incident management tools for streamlined incident response.

Cost Monitoring and Optimization

Track cloud infrastructure costs and optimize spend.

Synthetic Monitoring for Applications

Simulate user journeys and monitor application availability and responsiveness.

Distributed Tracing and Performance Analysis

Analyze request flows and latency across distributed systems.

Key Features

Explore the core capabilities that make Grafana stand out.

Customizable Dashboards

Create interactive dashboards tailored to different roles and use cases. Supports real-time and historical data visualization.

Visualization

Multi-Source Data Integration

Connect and unify multiple data sources. Supports metrics, logs, and traces.

Core

Alerting and Notification

Set alerts across systems and metrics with multi-channel notifications.

Monitoring

Explore Mode

Ad-hoc querying and deep troubleshooting enabling interactive analysis.

Troubleshooting

Annotations and Events

Overlay events on dashboards to add context to data trends.

Visualization

Dashboard Variables

Enable dynamic filtering and reusability of dashboards with parameters.

Visualization

Plugin Ecosystem

Extend Grafana with a rich ecosystem of community and custom plugins.

Extensibility

Role-Based Access Control

Control access at user and team levels to secure dashboards and data.

Security

Real-Time Monitoring

Visualize live system data with streaming updates for instantaneous insights.

Monitoring

Data Transformation

Transform and aggregate data within dashboards to prepare insights.

Data

Multi-Tenancy

Support multiple teams or clients with isolated data and dashboards.

Enterprise

Alert Correlation

Aggregate and correlate related alerts to reduce noise and identify patterns.

Monitoring

Cost Monitoring

Visualize and track infrastructure and cloud spend to optimize costs.

Business

Drilldown Navigation

Navigate from high-level summaries to granular details within dashboards.

Ux

User Authentication

Integrate with external identity providers for user authentication.

Security

Templating and Reusable Panels

Create reusable panels and dashboard templates for efficiency.

Visualization

Annotations API

Programmatically add annotations to dashboards for automation.

Automation

Mobile Accessibility

Access dashboards and alerts from mobile devices.

Accessibility

Scheduled Reporting

Automate the generation and distribution of reports.

Reporting

Data Source Health Monitoring

Monitor the health and availability of connected data sources.

Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring

Simulate user journeys and monitor application availability and performance.

Performance

Business Metrics Visualization

Visualize key business indicators alongside technical metrics.

Business Intelligence

API Access

Programmatic access to dashboards and metrics data.

Automation

Contextual Integrations

Not just "integrates with" – here's the specific value each integration delivers:

Prometheus

Prometheus

Delivers: Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit focused on metrics.

AWS CloudWatch

Delivers: Amazon AWS monitoring service providing metrics and logs for AWS resources.

Azure Monitor

Delivers: Microsoft Azure monitoring service that collects metrics and logs across Azure resources.

Google Cloud Monitoring

Delivers: Google Cloud's monitoring service for metrics and logs across GCP resources.

Loki

Delivers: Open-source log aggregation system optimized for storing and querying logs.

Tempo

Delivers: Distributed tracing backend for collecting and analyzing traces.

Resources

Latest insights, guides, and templates to accelerate your decisions.

Blog Posts

Recent5 min

Grafana Blog

Read

Recent5 min

Observability Trends and Best Practices

Read

Downloads

Coming Soon-

Downloads coming soon

Resources and templates will be available soon

Download

Case Studies

Case StudyN/A

Customer Stories

Read Study

Case StudyN/A

How Grafana Helps Enterprises Scale Observability

Read Study

Platform Updates

RecentLatest

Latest Grafana Release Notes

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Videos

Watch Grafana in action.

Grafana Overview

Grafana Overview

Getting Started with Grafana Dashboards

Getting Started with Grafana Dashboards

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Pricing & Plans

Open Source

Free

Grafana Cloud

Usage-based

Enterprise

Custom

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Grafana:

Monitoring, visualization, and alerting platform. Analyze metrics, logs, and traces for operational insights.

Grafana is open source and free to use. Paid plans with additional features and support are available.

Supports integration with cloud platforms, databases, APIs, and popular monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo.

Yes, users can self-host Grafana or use Grafana Cloud, the managed service offering.

Yes, Grafana provides alerting with multi-channel notifications and escalation workflows.

Customizable dashboards, multi-source integration, alerting, explore mode, annotations, plugins, and enterprise-grade security.

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