What is Grafana?

Grafana is an open platform for visualization, monitoring, and data analysis. It allows creating dashboards with various panels (charts, tables, histograms, etc.) displaying data from different sources.

Main features:

• Data source flexibility: Supports many sources, including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, cloud providers, and others.
• Visualization: A wide range of panel types for data presentation.
• Alerts: Setting up rules and notification channels based on metric thresholds.
• Dashboards: Creating interactive and customizable dashboards.
• Extensibility: Support for plugins to add new data sources and visualizations.
• Templating: Using variables for dynamic query modification and data display.

Grafana is often used for monitoring application performance, infrastructure, logs, and other time series data.