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Grafana

Here you will find a number of articles that relate to the installation, configuration and operation of Grafana Labs open-source software products. Grafana Labs develops an open-source observability platform centered around Grafana for visualization, Prometheus for metrics collection, Loki for log aggregation, Promtail as a log collector for Loki, and Grafana Alerting for unified alerting across metrics and logs.

  • Grafana is an open-source platform for visualizing and analyzing time-series data.
  • Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for collecting metrics.
  • Loki is a horizontally scalable, multi-tenant log aggregation system that indexes logs via labels.
  • Grafana Alerting enables unified alert creation and management across metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Promtail is a log collector that ships logs to Loki with labeling and filtering capabilities.

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