Grafana
Observability
Overview
Grafana is an open-source observability and data visualization platform that provides interactive dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces. It supports multiple data sources including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and SQL databases. Grafana offers alerting, annotations, templating, and plugin architecture, and is widely used for infrastructure monitoring, application observability, and operational analytics.
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Deployment
- Self-hosted / on-premises, SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Software & technology, Workflow orchestration, Observability, Self-hosted / on-premises, Predictive / classical ML, Freemium, Functional application, SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
Use cases
Deployment options
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- grafana.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 28 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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