Observability / Dashboards
Grafana
An observability platform for querying, visualizing, and alerting on metrics, logs, traces, and other data sources.
Problem it solves
Why it exists.
It solves the difficulty of turning raw operational data into shared, actionable views for teams and incidents.
Optimized for
Where it shines.
Operational dashboards, service-level views, exploratory analysis, and alerting across multiple telemetry backends.
Use with care
Where not to use it.
Do not use it as the system of record for metrics or logs; it visualizes and queries data stored elsewhere.
Components
What it is made of.
- Data sources
- Panels
- Dashboards
- Variables
- Alerts and folders
Process
How it works.
- A data source exposes telemetry
- A query feeds a panel
- Panels compose a dashboard
- Teams use alerts and annotations to investigate change