Grafana: Open-Source Data Visualization Platform
Help Net Security, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Grafana is an open-source solution for querying, visualizing, alerting, and exploring metrics, logs, and traces regardless of where they are stored.
Grafana provides tools to transform your time-series database (TSDB) data into meaningful graphs and visualizations. Additionally, its plugin framework lets you integrate various data sources, including NoSQL/SQL databases, ticketing tools such as Jira or ServiceNow, and CI/CD platforms like GitLab.
'Grafana was created to address the need for a user-friendly and interactive platform for visualizing time series metrics. Grafana's founder, Torkel Odegaard, initially started working on it as a side project in 2013 when he saw a gap in the open-source community: There was no flexible and customizable platform that could effectively display metrics and logs.