grafana

grafana

Alternative to Datadog

Grafana is an observability platform for unified visualization of metrics, logs, and traces. It connects to 40+ data sources including Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and CloudWatch to deliver customizable dashboards for system monitoring.

  • 40+ data sources including Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and CloudWatch
  • Rich dashboards with graphs, tables, heatmaps, geo maps, and more panel types
  • Alerting with condition-based rules and notifications to Slack, PagerDuty, and email
  • Grafana Loki for log aggregation with Prometheus-like label-based queries
  • Grafana Tempo for distributed tracing compatible with Jaeger and Zipkin
  • Template variables for dynamic dashboard filtering and switching

Built with Go and TypeScript under the AGPL license, Grafana provides a unified observability solution from infrastructure to application monitoring as an alternative to Datadog.

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