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.