Grafana

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Grafana
Developer(s) Grafana Labs
Stable release
11.4.0 [1] / 5 December 2024;43 days ago (5 December 2024)
Repository
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.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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.

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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] OpenSearch, [11] and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was originally based on version 3 of Kibana. [12]

History

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. [13]

In 2019, Grafana Labs secured $24 million in Series A funding. [14] In the 2020 Series B funding round it obtained $50 million. [15] In the 2021 Labs Series C funding round, Grafana secured $220 million. [16]

Grafana Labs acquired Kausal in 2018, [17] k6 [18] [19] and Amixr [20] in 2021, and Asserts.ai in 2023. [21]

Adoption

Grafana is used [5] in Wikimedia's infrastructure. [22] In 2017, Grafana had over 1000 paying customers, including Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, and eBay. [18]

Licensing

Previously, Grafana was licensed with an Apache License 2.0 license and used a CLA based on the Harmony Contributor Agreement. [23]

Since 2021, Grafana has been licensed under an AGPLv3 license. [24] 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. [25]

Grafana Labs launched a series of related open-source projects to complement Grafana:

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