Grafana
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Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.
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| Developer(s) | Grafana Labs |
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| Stable release | 11.5.2[1]
/ 19 February 2025 |
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| Written in | Go and TypeScript |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS |
| Type | Business intelligence |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 |
| Website | grafana |
There is also a licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities, which is sold as a self-hosted installation or through an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service.[2] It is expandable through a plug-in system. Complex monitoring dashboards[3] can be built by end users, with the aid of interactive query builders. The product is divided into a front end and back end, written in TypeScript and Go, respectively.[4]
As a visualization tool, Grafana can be used as a component in monitoring stacks,[5] often in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus[6][7] and Graphite;[8] monitoring platforms such as Sensu,[9] Icinga, Checkmk,[10] Zabbix, Netdata,[7] and PRTG; SIEMs such as Elasticsearch,[6] OpenSearch,[11] and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was originally based on version 3 of Kibana.[12]
History
Grafana was first released in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaard as an offshoot of a project at Orbitz. It targeted time series databases such as InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and Prometheus, but evolved to support relational databases such as MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.[13]
In 2019, Grafana Labs secured $24 million in Series A funding.[14] In the 2020 Series B funding round it obtained $50 million.[15] In the 2021 Labs Series C funding round, Grafana secured $220 million.[16]
Grafana Labs acquired Kausal in 2018,[17] k6[18][19] and Amixr[20] in 2021, and Asserts.ai in 2023.[21]
Adoption
Grafana is used[5] in Wikimedia's infrastructure.[22] In 2017, Grafana had over 1000 paying customers, including Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, and eBay.[18]
Licensing
Previously, Grafana was licensed with an Apache License 2.0 license and used a CLA based on the Harmony Contributor Agreement.[23]
Since 2021, Grafana has been licensed under an AGPLv3 license.[24] Contributors to Grafana need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) that gives Grafana Labs the right to relicense Grafana in the future. The CLA is based on The Apache Software Foundation Individual Contributor License Agreement.[25]
Related projects
Grafana Labs launched a series of related open-source projects to complement Grafana:
- Grafana Loki - a log aggregation platform inspired by Prometheus first made available in 2019[26]
- Grafana Mimir - a Prometheus-compatible, scalable metrics storage and analysis tool released in 2022 that replaced Cortex[27]
- Grafana Tempo - a distributed tracing tool, released in 2021[28]
- Grafana Pyroscope - a continuous profiling tool, released in 2023[29]
References
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