📊 Grafana Flashcards
📊 What is Grafana?
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring, observability, and data visualization using dashboards.
📈 What is a Grafana Dashboard?
A dashboard is a set of visualizations (panels) arranged on a grid to represent metrics from various data sources.
🔌 What are Grafana Data Sources?
Grafana supports many data sources like Prometheus, InfluxDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, AWS CloudWatch, and more.
📦 What are Panels in Grafana?
Panels are individual visualization blocks (e.g., graphs, tables, gauges) within a dashboard.
🛠️ What is Grafana used for?
Grafana is used for visualizing time-series data, infrastructure monitoring, performance tracking, and alerting.
🔔 What are Grafana Alerts?
Alerts are triggered based on thresholds and sent via channels like email, Slack, PagerDuty, and webhook.
🔐 Can Grafana manage users & roles?
Yes, Grafana supports user roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer) and organizations for access control.
🌐 Is Grafana cloud-native?
Yes, Grafana is highly scalable, works with Kubernetes, and has a managed cloud version by Grafana Labs.
⚙️ What is Grafana Loki?
Loki is Grafana’s log aggregation system that integrates with Grafana dashboards for observability.
📚 Does Grafana support plugins?
Yes, Grafana supports plugins for panels, data sources, and apps to extend its functionality.
🧪 Can Grafana be integrated with Prometheus?
Absolutely. Prometheus is a popular data source for Grafana to visualize metrics and trigger alerts.
📦 How is Grafana deployed?
Grafana can be deployed via Docker, Kubernetes, or on-premise with native binaries. It also has a cloud offering.