Grafana gives teams a visual way to query and explore information stored in monitoring systems. Dashboards bring charts and other views together so people can examine an application's behavior, compare time periods or follow an incident across signals. It is useful when that data needs a shared interface rather than separate database queries. Grafana connects to the backends that hold the records; it does not automatically collect or store all of them itself.
Current guidance
The Grafana application Helm chart has moved to grafana-community/helm-charts. Its former directory in grafana/helm-charts states that updates and support moved after January 30, 2026. Use the community repository or its OCI registry for new chart releases. Neither this move nor the older stable-chart archive means Grafana is retired.
Grafana presents data from backends; it does not replace their storage, collection or alerting responsibilities automatically. Review authentication, data-source credentials, dashboard provisioning and persistence before choosing chart defaults.
For a migration, export or provision dashboards deliberately and test a normal user's permissions. Verify data-source access and alert delivery separately. Keep a known-good configuration and a backup of state that cannot be recreated from source.
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Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB. No matter where your data is, or what kind of database it lives in, you can bring it together with Grafana. Beautifully.
Features:
The analytics platform for all your metrics
Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.
Visualize
From heatmaps to histograms. Graphs to geomaps. Grafana has a plethora of visualization options to help you understand your data, beautifully. Read more.
Alert
Seamlessly define alerts where it makes sense, while you’re in the data. Define thresholds visually, and get notified via Slack, PagerDuty, and more. Read more.
Unify
Bring your data together to get the better context. Grafana supports dozens of databases, natively. Mix them together in the same Dashboard. Read more.
Open
Grafana gives you options. It’s completely open source and backed by a vibrant community. Use Hosted Grafana, or easily install on any platform.
Extend
Discover hundreds of dashboards and plugins in the official library. Thanks to the passion and momentum of our community, new ones are added every week.
Collaborate
Bring everyone together, and share data and dashboards across teams. Grafana empowers users and helps foster a data-driven culture.
Built-in Graphite Support
Grafana includes a built-in Graphite query parser that takes writing graphite metric expressions to a whole new level. Expressions are easier to read and faster to edit than ever.
- Click on any metric segment to change it
- Quickly add functions (search, typeahead)
- Click on a function parameter to change it
- Move function order to the left or right
Built-in InfluxDB Support
- Rich query editor with measurement, tag, and tag value completion
- Automatic handling of the group by time
- Templating queries for generic dashboards
- Alias patterns for short readable series names
- Ad hoc filters for exploration dashboards
Built-in Prometheus Support
- Query editor with metric name lookup
- Templating queries for generic dashboards
- Alias patterns for short readable series names
Built-in Elasticsearch Support
- Rich query editor with automatic property name lookup
- Extract many types of metrics from documents like Avg, Min, Max, Percentiles, Std Dev, etc.
- Group by multiple terms or filters
- Query only relevant indices based on a time pattern
- Alias patterns for short readable series names
Built-in Cloudwatch Support
- Rich editor with auto-completion for metric names, namespaces, and dimensions
- Templating queries for generic dashboards
- Alias patterns for short readable series names
Authentication
LDAP, Google Auth, Grafana.com, Github. However your company handles auth, Grafana makes it work easily with your existing workflow.
Organizations
Grafana supports multi-tenancy. Setup multiple organizations that each can have their own admins define their own data sources, dashboards and users.
User Preferences
Grafana includes power user preferences including the option to select from dark or white themes, set your home dashboard, change timezones and more.
Alerting
Visually define alert rules for your most important metrics. Grafana will continuously evaluate them and can send notifications.
Notifications
When an alert changes state it sends out notifications. Receive email notifications or get them from Slack, PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie, or via webhook.
Dynamic Dashboards
Create dynamic & reusable dashboards with template variables that appear as dropdowns at the top of the dashboard.
Annotations
Annotate graphs with rich events from different data sources. Hover over events shows you the full event metadata and tags.
Ad-hoc Filters
Ad-hoc filters allow you to create new key/value filters on the fly, which are automatically applied to all queries that use that data source.
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