Grafana
- About
- The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Open-source alternative to Datadog.
- Catalogue
- No. 004
- Category
- Data & Content
- Founded
- 2014, Stockholm, Sweden
- GitHub stars
- ★ 77.3k

Overview
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Grafana provides tools to turn time-series database data into beautiful graphs and visualizations.
What it does well
Grafana offers powerful and flexible dashboard creation, a wide range of data source integrations, alerting capabilities, and a highly customizable interface. It supports various visualization types and can combine different data sources in a single dashboard.
Why it’s in the collection
Grafana is ideal for teams and organizations that need to visualize and analyze complex data from multiple sources. Its extensibility, active community, and continuous development make it a go-to solution for observability and monitoring needs.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 77,284
- Forks
- 14,857
- Commits
- 74,507
- Repository
- grafana/grafana
Languages
- TypeScript 52.8%
- Go 40.3%
- JavaScript 0.3%
- Other 6.6%
Compared with
KibanaPart of the Elastic Stack, focuses on log analysis and visualization but less flexible with data sources.
DatadogA SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform with a wider range of features but at a higher cost.
PrometheusFocuses on metrics and alerting, often used in conjunction with Grafana for visualization.
ZabbixAn enterprise-class open-source monitoring solution with its own visualization tools.
See every open-source alternative to Datadog in the collection.



