🔧 DevOps & Infrastructure Tools Monitoring & Observability

Grafana

Monitoring and observability

Grafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability, transforming time-series data into beautiful, actionable dashboards.

Used by millions of users worldwide, Grafana helps teams visualize metrics, logs, and traces from any data source to understand system performance and health.

Why Grafana dominates monitoring:

  • Universal data source support - Connect to Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and 100+ sources
  • Beautiful visualizations - Rich chart types and customizable dashboards
  • Powerful alerting - Smart notifications when metrics cross thresholds
  • Open source foundation - No vendor lock-in with active community development

Core features:

  • Dashboard builder - Drag-and-drop interface with rich visualization options
  • Alerting system - Multi-channel notifications (Slack, email, PagerDuty, etc.)
  • Data exploration - Interactive querying and analysis tools
  • User management - Team-based access controls and permissions
  • Plugins ecosystem - Extend functionality with community and commercial plugins
  • Mobile support - Monitor systems on-the-go with responsive design

Popular use cases:

  • Infrastructure monitoring - Server metrics, network performance, resource usage
  • Application performance - Response times, error rates, user experience metrics
  • Business metrics - KPIs, sales data, and operational dashboards
  • IoT and sensor data - Environmental monitoring and industrial analytics

Perfect for:

  • DevOps teams monitoring application and infrastructure health
  • Site reliability engineers ensuring system uptime and performance
  • Data engineers building observability into data pipelines
  • Business analysts creating operational dashboards

Enterprise advantages:

  • Grafana Cloud - Managed service with enterprise support
  • Grafana Enterprise - Advanced features, security, and support
  • Scalable architecture - Handle millions of metrics across global deployments

Used by Netflix, eBay, PayPal, and thousands of organizations for comprehensive monitoring and observability.

Get Started with Grafana

Start visualizing your data today. Visit grafana.com to download the open-source version or explore Grafana Cloud for a fully managed solution.