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Grafana

Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application that provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web.

5 sources 73,191 stars Self-hosted AGPL-3.0

Product snapshot

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Grafana interface screenshot

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About

Grafana is an open-source platform for observability and data visualization‚ empowering users to monitor and analyze their data in real-time. With its modular and composable architecture‚ Grafana allows users to aggregate data from multiple sources‚ including databases‚ cloud services‚ and monitoring tools‚ and visualize it through customizable dashboards and graphs. Grafana's rich ecosystem of plugins and integrations enables users to extend its functionality according to their specific needs. Whether you're monitoring infrastructure performance‚ analyzing application metrics‚ or visualizing business analytics‚ Grafana provides a flexible and intuitive solution for gaining insights from your data.

Why it stands out

Grafana is an open source alternative to Datadog, New Relic. Licensed under AGPL-3.0, it gives you full access to the source code and the freedom to modify, self-host, and contribute. You can deploy it on your own servers for complete data ownership and privacy.

Highlights

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Support for multiple data sources

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Customizable dashboards

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Alerting system

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Plugin ecosystem

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User management and authentication

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Templating and variables

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Metrics Visualization

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Log Aggregation

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Tracing

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Dashboarding

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Alerting

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Plugins

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Synthetic Monitoring

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Continuous Profiling

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Incident Management

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Frontend Observability

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40+ data source plugins

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Beautiful customizable dashboards

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Alerting with notification channels

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Log aggregation (Loki)

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Tracing (Tempo)

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Annotations & templating

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