Grafana
Grafana is a visualization platform that connects to multiple data sources (Prometheus/InfluxDB/ELK) to build monitoring dashboards and alerts.
Purpose
Unify visualization of multi-source monitoring data and build operations dashboards.
Mechanism
Data source plugins integrate Prometheus/Loki/ELK/CloudWatch and more. Dashboards combine panels (charts/tables/alerts). Variables enable dynamic filtering. Alert rules trigger notifications.
Use cases
- Monitoring visualization
- Dashboards
- Alerting