Grafana

Grafana (Grafana Labs) is an open source software written in go first released in 2014, feature rich metrics dashboard, alerting and graph editor for CloudWatch, ElasticSearch, Grafana Logging, Graphite, InfluxDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, OpenTSDB, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Google Stackdriver and TestData DB.

• Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana

Alerting is supported at least in the following datasources Graphite, Prometheus, Elasticsearch (since version 5.2), InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, MySQL, Postgres and Cloudwatch.

Notifications enables support for the following channels Discord, Email, Hipchat, Kafka, Line, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, Pagerduty, Prometheus Alertmanager, Pushover, RocketChat, Sensu, Slack, Telegram, Threema, VictorOps, Webhook.

Features:

• Annotations
• Notifications
• LDAP integration

Editions:

• Grafana Enterprise

Binaries

• grafana-cli and grafana-server

Configuration files

• /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

Usage

Grafana is widely used including by wikipedia foundation

Activities

1. Review Wikimedia Grafana graphs: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/?orgId=1
2. Read Grafana Changelog. Major ~ 1 year, minor ~ 1 month
3. Read Grafana source code: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
4. Review Grafana logs
5. review https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grafana?tab=Votes
6. Configure Cloudwatch as Source: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/aws-cloudwatch/

Related terms

• Node.js
• Prometheus: prometheus node exporter
• Elasticsearch
• Dashboards: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards
• Amazon Managed service for Grafana (Aug 2021)
• Grafana OnCall
• Grafana Mimir
• Grafana Tempo
• Orbitz
• Kubernetes monitoring
• WiW: https://twitter.com/pracucci
• Synthetic
• Terraform Grafana provider
• Grafana roles

See also

• Grafana, Grafana datasources, Grafana Alerting, Grafana installation, Grafana Labs, Grafana Changelog, Grafana logs, docker-compose.yml (Grafana), Grafana Loki, Grafana Tanka, StatsD and Graphite, grafana-cli, Loki, LogQL, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Cloud, Grafana alerts, Amazon Grafana, Grafana OnCall, Grafana Tempo, Grafana Mimir, Grafana agent, plugins, Terraform, Grafana dashboards, /etc/grafana/grafana.ini, Grafana Pyroscope
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Cacti, monit, munin, RRDtool, Zabbix, Netdata, Nagios, Check MK, Icinga, Pingdom, OpsGenie and Datadog, Opsgenie, PRTG, Checkmk

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Source: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/System_administration/Grafana