Grafana

Open-source observability and data visualization platform that lets you query, visualize, alert on, and understand metrics, logs, and traces from many sources in one place. Create and share dashboards with your team while keeping data in your existing stores, no migration required.

Grafana is widely adopted by enterprises and recognized as a leader in observability. It differentiates by supporting 100+ data source plugins: Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres, AWS, Zabbix, and more, querying existing backends in real time without requiring data ingestion. Built on open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.

Key capabilities:

• 100+ data source plugins: query existing databases and APIs in real time without migrating data
• Unified view of metrics, logs, traces, and profiles across the LGTM stack
• Flexible alerting, SLO management, and on-call workflows
• Deploy on-premises or use cloud-hosted options
• Configuration as code: manage dashboards and datasources via JSON or YAML for version control and automation

Teams use Grafana to monitor infrastructure, troubleshoot incidents, and build a data-driven culture. DevOps and SREs rely on it for Kubernetes and application observability, correlating metrics with logs and traces to speed up root cause analysis. Developers integrate it with CI pipelines and deploy dashboards as code for consistent environments across staging and production.