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Grafana is the industry-standard observability dashboard — visualizes metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, InfluxDB, and 100+ other data sources. Alerts, anomaly detection, scheduled reports, multi-tenancy, RBAC — everything a production-ops team needs in one place.

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// What it is

A closer look.

The community-edition (AGPLv3) is the same engine that powers Grafana Cloud — full feature parity for self-hosters.

// Use cases

What it's for.

Concrete scenarios where teams pick Grafana over the SaaS alternative.

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Infrastructure monitoring

CPU, RAM, disk, network across the VPS fleet

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Application metrics

request rate, error rate, latency from your services via Prometheus

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Centralized logging

Loki pipeline for app + system logs with full-text search

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Distributed tracing

Tempo / Jaeger integration for microservice debugging

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Business dashboards

connect to Postgres / MySQL and visualize ops KPIs

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Alerting

Slack / Telegram / PagerDuty / email when something breaks

// Who it's for

Built for these teams.

If your team profile matches one of these, Grafana is a strong fit out of the box.

Profile A

SRE / DevOps teams

running production infrastructure and needing unified metrics + logs + traces

Profile B

Engineering managers

building business KPI dashboards from Postgres / data warehouse

Profile C

Hosting providers

offering customer-facing tenant dashboards for VPS observability

Profile D

Solo developers

monitoring side-project VPS health, alerting on disk/CPU thresholds

Profile E

Multi-cloud platform teams

unifying AWS + GCP + Hetzner + on-prem in a single pane of glass

// Differentiators

Why teams pick Grafana.

When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Grafana consistently lands above the alternatives.

✓Open observability standard — every modern tool (Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Cloudflare) ships a Grafana dashboard
✓100+ data sources — single pane of glass for heterogeneous stacks
✓Dashboard marketplace — grafana.com/grafana/dashboards has thousands of pre-built dashboards
✓Modern alerting — unified rules engine across all data sources, replaces Alertmanager-only setups
✓Mature RBAC + SSO — OAuth, LDAP, SAML; per-folder permissions
✓AGPLv3 — community version — no feature gating for self-host

// Integrations

Connects to.

The stack you'll plug Grafana into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.

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Time-series data sources

Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTSDB, Datadog

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Logs

Loki, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Splunk via plugin

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Traces

Tempo, Jaeger, Zipkin

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SQL data sources

Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse

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Cloud-native

CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure Monitor

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Alert channels

Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, Telegram, email, Mattermost, custom webhook

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Identity

OAuth (Google, GitHub, Microsoft), LDAP, SAML, SSO via Authelia/Authentik proxy

// Adoption & deployment

Notable users & community

65k+ GitHub stars
Used by virtually every modern engineering org (Netflix, Bloomberg, eBay, Wikipedia, Spotify…)
Massive ecosystem: Grafana Labs Slack with tens of thousands of members
KubeCon / SREcon / ObservabilityCon talks every year
Public roadmap, weekly community calls, predictable LTS release cadence

What we ship

Docker compose: Grafana + persistent volume for dashboards + Prometheus sidecar (optional)
Pinned grafana/grafana:11.4.0, monthly upstream tracking
Admin user with random password on first boot, surfaced in install report
HTTPS via Let's Encrypt; OAuth / LDAP config documented for Enterprise tier
Pre-installed dashboards for the host VPS (Node Exporter style)
Auto-discovery of Prometheus / Loki when those apps are deployed on the same VPS
Backup hook covers /var/lib/grafana (dashboards, alerts, users)