Grafana¶

Present data to human. Cloud SaaS model, or containerized deployment.

Important links¶

• Tutorials
• OSS Getting started
• Git repo

• Installation for local playground:

  • Grafana requires a database to store its configuration data, such as users, data sources, and dashboards
  • By default, Grafana uses an embedded SQLite version 3 database

• Docker install: OSS image is grafana/grafana-oss or free etp version: grafana/grafana-enterprise

• Kubernetes deployment
• Supported Datasources with one of the most used data sources: Prometheus
• Grafana plugins page

Concepts¶

• Data sources can be SQL database, Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, or a JSON-based API