grafanaOps & cloud
grafana
An open-source monitoring and observability platform for querying, visualizing, alerting on, and understanding metrics and logs.
- DevOps
- Operations
- Data
- Monitoring / Observability
- Data analysis
- Web
- Browser
- Linux
- Self-hostable
- Runs locally
- Docker supported
- Popularity
- 77.0k Stars
- GitHub stars
- Recent activity
- 10/1/2026
- Updated in the last 30 days
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Strong copyleft
Why it matters
We look beyond stars: what problem it solves, whether it creates real utility, and what makes its approach worth noticing.
Problem
Addresses the difficulty of uniformly querying, visualizing, and monitoring distributed systems and heterogeneous data sources.
Practical value
Provides core features such as panel visualization, mixed data source queries, log exploration, and metric alerting.
Innovation / differentiation
Supports dynamic dashboards through template variables and allows combining data sources from different backends in a single graph.
Leverage potential
Acts as the central frontend and alerting hub for observability stacks, connecting multiple storage backends.
Why now
As a mature open-source monitoring platform, its format has been integrated into modern operations for years.
Community activity
In the last 90 days there were 973 new issues and 5048 pull requests; the bounded issue/PR samples include 63 issue authors and 32 PR contributors, with at least 28 releases.
Maintainer responsiveness
The 94-issue window sample had a 57% close rate, and the 69-pull-request sample had a 71% merge rate. Maintainer-response observations covered 54% of that issue sample, with a 0% response rate and median first response of not enough data.
Key highlights
- Connect multiple metric and log data sources to one interface
- Create reusable dynamic dashboards with template variables
- Explore data through ad-hoc queries, drilldowns, and split views
Quick start
How it is installed, how hard it is, and where to start.
Where it runs
Self-hosted (your own server)
Difficulty
Medium — some setup needed
- 01Choose the appropriate installation method from the official Get Grafana page.
- 02Start Grafana using the installation guide and add the metric or log data sources you need.
- 03Create dashboards, queries, and alert rules, or first explore examples in Grafana Play.
Best for
- Teams that want data on their own servers
- Developers who want to try it on their machine
- People who prefer Docker deploys
More about it
Grafana is an open-source monitoring and observability platform that connects to different data sources for querying, visualization, and alerting over metrics and logs. The official README highlights reusable dynamic dashboards, ad-hoc exploration and drilldown, log exploration, alert rules, and mixed data sources within the same visualization. The project provides installation paths and full setup documentation, along with the public Grafana Play environment for evaluating the interface before deploying it yourself.
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capability tags
Verifiedmonitoring, data_analysis
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
Latest release
Verifiedv13.2.3
Source: GitHub API · latest_release=v13.2.3 · 10/1/2026
License
VerifiedAGPL-3.0
Source: GitHub API · license.spdx_id=AGPL-3.0 · 10/1/2026
needs api key
VerifiedNo
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
One-liner
Verified{"en":"An open-source monitoring and observability platform for querying, visualizing, alerting on, and understanding metrics and logs.","zh":"用于查询、可视化、告警和分析指标与日志的开源监控与可观测平台。"}
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
Platforms
Verifiedbrowser, linux
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
Category hint
Inferred from materialsops-cloud
Source: Project README · hint=ops-cloud · 8/13/2026
product forms
Verifiedweb
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
role tags
Verifieddevops, operations, data
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
supports docker
VerifiedYes
Source: Repository file · dockerfile=true; compose=true · 10/1/2026
supports local
VerifiedYes
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
supports self host
VerifiedYes
Source: manual_curator · Manually curated from the official repository README and project links. · 8/17/2026
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