Grafana - Open-source data monitoring tool
What is Grafana?
Grafana is an open-source data visualization and monitoring tool. It visualizes data from Prometheus and many other data sources. It is developed by Grafana Labs.
Differences from Kibana
- Kibana is mainly used to analyze log messages.
- Grafana is specialized for visualizing system metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk usage.
- Kibana is tied to Elasticsearch, while Grafana can work with many different databases.
- Grafana provides alerting features for free.