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  "description": "Grafana is an open-source visualisation and dashboarding platform for time-series and observability data. It connects to many data sources (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, MySQL, BigQuery, CloudWatch, Datadog) and renders queries as panels: graphs, tables, heatmaps, single-stat tiles, and more.\n\n\nCore capabilities\n\n * Dashboards. Compositions of panels with shared time ranges and variable templating.\n * Multi-source. A single dashboard can pull metrics, logs, and traces from different ba",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T18:16:36.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Observability",
    "Prometheus",
    "Metrics",
    "Logging",
    "Distributed Tracing",
    "OpenTelemetry",
    "What is API Observability? Logs, Metrics, Traces Explained"
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  "textContent": "**Grafana** is an open-source visualisation and dashboarding platform for time-series and observability data. It connects to many data sources (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, MySQL, BigQuery, CloudWatch, Datadog) and renders queries as panels: graphs, tables, heatmaps, single-stat tiles, and more.\n\n## Core capabilities\n\n  * **Dashboards.** Compositions of panels with shared time ranges and variable templating.\n  * **Multi-source.** A single dashboard can pull metrics, logs, and traces from different backends.\n  * **Alerting.** Unified alert rules across data sources, routed via contact points to Slack, PagerDuty, email, webhooks.\n  * **Annotations.** Mark deployments, incidents, or events on graphs for context.\n  * **Variables.** Dropdowns that re-template a dashboard (per environment, per service, per region).\n\n\n\n## The Grafana stack\n\n  * **Prometheus / Mimir:** metrics\n  * **Loki:** logs\n  * **Tempo:** distributed traces\n  * **Pyroscope:** continuous profiling\n  * **Faro:** frontend observability\n\n\n\nTogether these form an open-source observability stack maintained by Grafana Labs.\n\n🔗\n\n**Related Terms**\nObservability, Prometheus, Metrics, Logging, Distributed Tracing, OpenTelemetry\n\n📖\n\n**Further Reading**\nWhat is API Observability? Logs, Metrics, Traces Explained",
  "title": "Grafana",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-13T19:11:29.632Z"
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