Grafana OSS
Dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces with rich plugins.
Why it is included
De facto visualization layer paired with Prometheus/Loki in modern stacks.
Best for
Ops dashboards from homelab to enterprise (edition-dependent).
If you use Windows, Mac, or paid tools
Dashboards alternative to Datadog dashboards, New Relic Insights, and Splunk Enterprise visualizations when paired with Prometheus.
Strengths
- Visualization
- Data sources
- Alerting integrations
Limitations
- AGPL considerations for some SaaS embedding
Good alternatives
Apache Superset (different focus)
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