Grafana
Security & Compliance Technologies
Grafana
Grafana is an open-source observability and data visualization platform used to explore, analyze, and monitor metrics, logs, and traces. It enables real-time dashboards and alerts across cloud-native and enterprise systems.
What is it?
Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform designed to turn operational data into actionable insights. It connects to multiple data sources such as Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, and cloud monitoring services.
What does it do?
Grafana allows teams to build interactive dashboards, visualize time-series metrics, analyze logs, and configure alerts. It provides role-based access control, templating, annotations, and extensible plugins.
Where is it used?
Grafana is widely used in cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes environments, SaaS products, enterprise infrastructures, and DevOps teams for monitoring performance, reliability, and system health.
When & why it emerged
Grafana was first released in 2014 to simplify metrics visualization and observability. It emerged as a unified interface for monitoring diverse data sources in modern, distributed systems.
Why we use it at Internative
We use Grafana to create clear, real-time observability dashboards for complex systems. It helps us and our clients understand system behavior, detect issues early, and make data-driven operational decisions.
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