InfluxData's web UI for InfluxDB 1.x: builds dashboards over InfluxQL queries and manages Kapacitor alert rules.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2016
- Status
- Active
- Website
- influxdata.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Dashboards and visualization checklist
4 of 8 confirmed in Chronograf's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Dashboards.
- Many data sources No
- Prometheus source No
- SQL sources No
- Alerting Yes
- Template variables Yes
- Dashboards as code Yes
- Sharing Not confirmed
- Annotations Yes
UI for InfluxDB 1.x only; alert rules run in Kapacitor
Checked against: github.com, docs.influxdata.com, docs.influxdata.com (2), docs.influxdata.com (3), docs.influxdata.com (4)
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