Open source dashboards and alerting over Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, SQL databases and many other data sources.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2014
- Status
- Active
- Website
- grafana.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Dashboards and visualization checklist
8 of 8 confirmed in Grafana's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Dashboards.
- Many data sources Yes
- Prometheus source Yes
- SQL sources Yes
- Alerting Yes
- Template variables Yes
- Dashboards as code Yes
- Sharing Yes
- Annotations Yes
Checked against: grafana.com, grafana.com (2), grafana.com (3), grafana.com (4), grafana.com (5), grafana.com (6)
Alternatives to Grafana
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Chronograf InfluxData's web UI for InfluxDB 1.x: builds dashboards over InfluxQL queries and manages Kapacitor alert rules. -
Elastic Stack (ELK) Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats: full-text indexing and search of logs with Kibana dashboards and alerting. Self-host the free distribution or buy Elastic Cloud. -
Nightingale Open source alerting and dashboard platform that sits on Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Elasticsearch and other sources, with alert rules and notification routing. -
OpenSearch Apache-licensed fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana run under the Linux Foundation. Indexes and searches logs, with OpenSearch Dashboards, alerting and trace analytics plugins. -
Perses CNCF open source dashboard tool with an open dashboard specification: Prometheus, Tempo and Loki panels, dashboards as code, and Kubernetes-native deployment. - Smashing Ruby (Sinatra) framework for team wallboard dashboards built from widgets that pull data from scripts and APIs; community fork of Shopify's Dashing.