Grafana is an open-source dashboard for data visualisation. It’s commonly used in tandem with Prometheus, using PromQL to query its data.

Questions:

  • What are time series.
  • What are metrics.
  • How do I group by a specific column/field in PromQL?
  • What exactly is time-series database? How does it differ?

Grafana visualises metrics and logs.

Grafana Managed Alerts

When the alerting conditions are satisfied, Grafana notifies a contact point, like Email, PagerDuty, Slack, etc. to notify and escalate to a human.