What is Grafana?
An open-source analytics and visualization platform for metrics, logs, and traces.
Grafana is an open-source observability platform for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from any data source. It connects to Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and dozens of other data sources. Dashboards are built with panels (graphs, tables, gauges, heatmaps) and can be shared, templated with variables, and exported. Grafana Alerting can fire alerts based on query conditions. The kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart installs Grafana with pre-built K8s dashboards.
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AlertManager
Prometheus component that handles alert routing, grouping, and notification delivery.
Error Budget
The acceptable amount of downtime or errors before an SLO is breached.
Loki
Grafana's horizontally scalable log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
Observability
The ability to understand the internal state of a system from its external outputs.
OpenTelemetry
An open-source observability framework for generating metrics, logs, and traces.
Prometheus
An open-source monitoring system that scrapes and stores time-series metrics.
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