Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.
Developer(s) | Grafana Labs |
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Stable release | 10.4.2[1]
/ 11 April 2024 |
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Written in | Go and TypeScript |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS |
Type | Business intelligence |
License | GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 |
Website | grafana |
There is also a licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities, which is sold as a self-hosted installation or through an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service.[2] It is expandable through a plug-in system. Complex monitoring dashboards[3] can be built by end users, with the aid of interactive query builders. The product is divided into a front end and back end, written in TypeScript and Go, respectively.[4]
As a visualization tool, Grafana can be used as a component in monitoring stacks,[5] often in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus[6][7] and Graphite;[8] monitoring platforms such as Sensu,[9] Icinga, Checkmk,[10] Zabbix, Netdata,[7] and PRTG; SIEMs such as Elasticsearch[6] and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was originally based on version 3 of Kibana.[11]
Grafana was first released in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaard as an offshoot of a project at Orbitz. It targeted time series databases such as InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and Prometheus, but evolved to support relational databases such as MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.[12]
In 2019, Grafana Labs secured $24 million in Series A funding.[13] In the 2020 Series B funding round it obtained $50 million.[14] In the 2021 Labs Series C funding round, Grafana secured $220 million.[15]
A conference, GrafanaCon 2020, scheduled for May 13–14, 2020, in Amsterdam, was changed to an online live streaming event during the COVID-19 pandemic.[16][17]
Grafana is used[5] in Wikimedia's infrastructure.[20] Grafana has over 1000 paying customers, including Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.[18]
Previously, Grafana was licensed with an Apache License 2.0 license and used a CLA based on the Harmony Contributor Agreement.[21]
Since 2021, Grafana has been licensed under an AGPLv3 license.[22] Contributors to Grafana need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) that gives Grafana Labs the right to relicense Grafana in the future. The CLA is based on The Apache Software Foundation Individual Contributor License Agreement.[23]