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Grafana
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Grafana

#2in Monitoring
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What is Grafana?

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

Grafana is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Create, edit, save & search dashboardsChange column spans and row heightsDrag and drop panels to rearrangeUse InfluxDB or Elasticsearch as dashboard storageImport & export dashboard (json file)Import dashboard from GraphiteTemplating

Grafana Pros & Cons

Pros of Grafana

  • ✓Beautiful
  • ✓Graphs are interactive
  • ✓Free
  • ✓Easy
  • ✓Nicer than the Graphite web interface
  • ✓Many integrations
  • ✓Can build dashboards
  • ✓Can collaborate on dashboards
  • ✓Easy to specify time window
  • ✓Dashboards contain number tiles

Cons of Grafana

  • ✗No interactive query builder

Grafana Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Grafana?

Kibana

Kibana

Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

Prometheus

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

Zabbix

Zabbix

Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

OpenCensus

OpenCensus

It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.

Graphite

Graphite

Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand

Grafana Integrations

Loki, Goldpinger, Gravity, Catchpoint Synthetics, M3 and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Grafana. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Grafana.

Loki
Loki
Goldpinger
Goldpinger
Gravity
Gravity
Catchpoint Synthetics
Catchpoint Synthetics
M3
M3
OverOps
OverOps
OpenTSDB
OpenTSDB
PRTG
PRTG
Alerta
Alerta
BDS
BDS
TimescaleDB
TimescaleDB
Squadcast
Squadcast

Grafana Discussions

Discover why developers choose Grafana. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Conor Myhrvold
Conor Myhrvold

Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber Technologies

Dec 4, 2018

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Why we spent several years building an open source, large-scale metrics alerting system, M3, built for Prometheus:

By late 2014, all services, infrastructure, and servers at Uber emitted metrics to a Graphite stack that stored them using the Whisper file format in a sharded Carbon cluster. We used Grafana for dashboarding and Nagios for alerting, issuing Graphite threshold checks via source-controlled scripts. While this worked for a while, expanding the Carbon cluster required a manual resharding process and, due to lack of replication, any single node’s disk failure caused permanent loss of its associated metrics. In short, this solution was not able to meet our needs as the company continued to grow.

To ensure the scalability of Uber’s metrics backend, we decided to build out a system that provided fault tolerant metrics ingestion, storage, and querying as a managed platform...

https://eng.uber.com/m3/

(GitHub : https://github.com/m3db/m3)

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Joshua Dean Küpper
Joshua Dean Küpper

CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Jul 14, 2017

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We primarily use Prometheus to gather metrics and statistics to display them in Grafana. Aside from that we poll Prometheus for our orchestration-solution "JCOverseer" to determine, which host is least occupied at the moment.

While there are existing orchestration softwares/suites like Kubernetes, that we also plan to adopt in the future, we're of the opinion that those solutions do not fit our special environment within minecraft and our own solution will outperform them in the limited scope that it needs to cover.

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Joshua Dean Küpper
Joshua Dean Küpper

CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Jul 14, 2017

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Grafana is used in combination with Prometheus to display the gathered stats and to monitor our physical servers aswell as their virtual applications. While Grafana also allows to configure automated alerts and rules, we decided to use Prometheus Alertmanager, as it is offers advanced features for silences (muting of alerts for a specific time) and also allows more fine-grained rules and notifications for each alert.

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sapslaj
sapslaj

Engineer

May 22, 2017

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Grafana takes the data from InfluxDB and presents it in a nice flexible format. Bonus points for built-in alerts and playlists (cycles through different dashboards automatically) Grafana

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Chris Hartwig
Chris Hartwig

Clan Of The Cloud

Sep 17, 2015

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Grafana is our monitoring system, with system and applicative dashboards Grafana

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