Grafana
Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform for building dashboards over metrics, logs, and traces from many different data sources.
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Glossary Terms(19)
Prometheus
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects time-series metrics from applications and infrastructure, queried through its own Pr…
Grafana
Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform for building dashboards over metrics, logs, and traces from many different data sources.
Zabbix
Zabbix is an open-source enterprise monitoring platform for tracking the availability and performance of networks, servers, virtual machines, cloud services, a…
InfluxDB
InfluxDB is a purpose-built time-series database designed to store and query high-volume, timestamped data such as metrics, sensor readings, and monitoring eve…
k6
k6 is an open-source load testing tool, maintained by Grafana Labs, that lets developers write performance tests as JavaScript code to measure how APIs and web…
Kibana
Kibana is a data visualization and exploration tool for Elasticsearch, providing dashboards and interfaces commonly used for log analysis, search analytics, an…
TimescaleDB
TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database built as an extension of PostgreSQL, adding automatic partitioning, compression, and query optimizations for…
Dynatrace
Dynatrace is an AI-powered, full-stack observability and application performance monitoring (APM) platform that automatically maps and monitors applications, i…
Elastic
Elastic is the company behind the open-source Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, often called the "ELK Stack" — providing search, obse…
Sentry
Sentry is an application monitoring platform that captures, aggregates, and helps developers triage errors, exceptions, and performance issues across web, mobi…
Loki
Loki is a horizontally scalable, open-source log aggregation system built by Grafana Labs that indexes only metadata (labels) rather than full log content, mak…
New Relic
New Relic is a full-stack observability platform that monitors application performance, infrastructure, and logs, helping teams detect, diagnose, and resolve p…
OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a vendor-neutral, open-source observability framework and set of APIs, SDKs, and tools for generating, collecting, and exporting metric…
Datadog
Datadog is a cloud-based observability and security platform that unifies infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management,…
Grafana Loki
Grafana Loki is an open source log aggregation system designed by Grafana Labs to be cost-efficient at scale by indexing only metadata labels rather than the f…
Grafana Tempo
Grafana Tempo is an open source, high-scale distributed tracing backend by Grafana Labs that stores traces cheaply using object storage and minimal indexing, d…
Cortex (monitoring)
Cortex is an open source, CNCF-hosted project that provides horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus metrics, letting organization…
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics is an open source, high-performance time series database and monitoring solution designed as a fast, cost-efficient, Prometheus-compatible alte…
Observability
Observability is the degree to which a system's internal state can be understood from its external outputs — typically metrics, logs, and traces — allowing eng…
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What is Grafana and How Does it Relate to Prometheus?
Grafana is an open-source visualization and dashboarding platform that queries data sources like Prometheus, Loki, or Elasticsearch and renders their results a…
What is the Difference Between a Grafana Dashboard and a Panel?
A Grafana dashboard is the overall page — a saved collection of visualizations, layout, and shared settings like time range and template variables — while a pa…