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for visualization

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Connect Grafana to data sources, apps, and more

Incident Response & Management

with Grafana Alerting, Grafana Incident, and Grafana OnCall

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Grafana Loki

Multi-tenant log aggregation system

Grafana

Query, visualize, and alert on data

Grafana Tempo

High-scale distributed tracing backend

Grafana Mimir

Scalable and performant metrics backend

Grafana OnCall

On-call management

Grafana Phlare

Scalable continuous profiling backend

Grafana Faro

Frontend application observability web SDK

Grafana Agent

Batteries-included telemetry collector

Grafana k6

Load testing for engineering teams

Prometheus

Monitor Kubernetes and cloud native

OpenTelemetry

Instrument and collect telemetry data

Graphite

Scalable monitoring for time series data

Community resources

Dashboard templates

Try out and share prebuilt visualizations

Prometheus exporters

Get your metrics into Prometheus quickly

Featured Solutions

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Observability Survey 2023

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Mary Sitzenstatter

Mary is a Product Designer at Grafana Labs, where she focuses on building new experiences for Grafana Enterprise. She's been designing for over 10 years in a wide range of industries.

How to manage cardinality with out-of-the-box dashboards in Grafana Cloud

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