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Welcome to the Grafana Documentation

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Grafana is an open source metric analytics & visualization suite. It is most commonly used for visualizing time series data for infrastructure and application analytics but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control.

Installing Grafana

• Installing on Debian / Ubuntu
• Installing on RPM-based Linux (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, RedHat)
• Installing on Mac OS X
• Installing on Windows
• Installing on Docker
• Installing using Provisioning (Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, etc)
• Nightly Builds

For other platforms Read the build from source instructions for more information.

Configuring Grafana

The back-end web server has a number of configuration options. Go the Configuration page for details on all those options.

Getting started

• Getting Started
• Basic Concepts
• Screencasts

Data sources guides

• Graphite
• Elasticsearch
• InfluxDB
• OpenTSDB