Grafana

 ( Free Software Programmed In Typescript ) 

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.

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. It is expandable through a plug-in system. Complex monitoring dashboards 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.

As a visualization tool, Grafana can be used as a component in monitoring stacks, often in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite; monitoring platforms such as Sensu, Icinga, Check MK, Zabbix, Netdata, and PRTG; SIEMs such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was originally based on version 3 of Kibana.

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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.

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

Grafana Labs acquired Kausal in 2018, k6 and Amixr in 2021, and Asserts.ai in 2023.

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Adoption Grafana is used in Wikimedia's infrastructure. In 2017, Grafana had over 1000 paying customers, including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay.

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Licensing

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

Since 2021, Grafana has been licensed under an AGPLv3 license. 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.

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Related projects

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

• Grafana Loki - a log aggregation platform inspired by Prometheus first made available in 2019
• Grafana Mimir - a Prometheus-compatible, scalable metrics storage and analysis tool released in 2022 that replaced Cortex
• Grafana Tempo - a distributed tracing tool, released in 2021
• Grafana Pyroscope - a continuous profiling tool, released in 2023

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