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Dashboards and alerting across many data sources. Grafana is an open-source tool for building dashboards and alerts on data from many sources, including Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, SQL databases and cloud monitoring services. Grafana Labs also publishes Loki for logs, Tempo for traces and Mimir for metrics, and runs Grafana Cloud as a hosted service.

When it is the right choice

  • You want one place to view metrics, logs and traces from different systems
  • You want dashboards defined as code and versioned
  • You want an open-source stack you can host yourself or buy as a service
  • A full SaaS such as Datadog may be faster to adopt if you have no one to run the stack

How we use it

  • Build dashboards per service and per AI feature: latency, errors, cost and usage
  • Provision dashboards and alerts from Git so they are reviewed and reproducible
  • Run Grafana with Loki and Tempo for logs and traces next to Prometheus metrics
  • Use dashboards in regular reviews to choose what to improve next
Works well with

Often used together

PrometheusOpenTelemetryKubernetesPostgreSQL
Services

Where it fits in our work

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Questions

Grafana: frequently asked

Self-hosted Grafana or Grafana Cloud?

Self-hosting gives full control but needs maintenance and storage. Grafana Cloud removes that work; check how its pricing scales with your data volume.

Can Grafana show business metrics?

Yes. It can query SQL databases and other sources, so business and technical metrics can sit side by side.

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