🎁 New User? Get 20% off your first purchase with code NEWUSER20 · ⚡ Instant download · 🔒 Secure checkout Register Now →
Menu

Categories

DevOps Intermediate

What is Grafana?

An open-source analytics and visualization platform for creating dashboards from various data sources.

Grafana creates interactive, customizable dashboards for monitoring data. It connects to Prometheus, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, InfluxDB, CloudWatch, and many other data sources. Dashboards include graphs, gauges, tables, heatmaps, and alerts.

Features include dashboard templates, variables for dynamic filtering, alerting rules, annotations, and team-based access control. Grafana Cloud offers a managed service. It is the visualization layer in most modern monitoring stacks.

Related Terms

Incident Management
The process of detecting, responding to, and resolving service disruptions to minimize impact and restore normal operations.
Terraform
An open-source tool for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure using declarative configuration files.
Log Aggregation
The process of collecting, centralizing, and indexing log data from multiple sources for unified search and analysis.
YAML
A human-readable data serialization language commonly used for configuration files in DevOps tools and applications.
Docker Volume
A mechanism for persisting data generated by Docker containers, surviving container restarts and removals.
Kubernetes ConfigMap
A Kubernetes object that stores non-sensitive configuration data as key-value pairs, injected into pods as environment variables or files.
 View All DevOps Terms →