📊 Grafana Flashcards
Visualization & observability platform for metrics, logs, and traces
💡 What is Grafana?
Open-source platform for creating dashboards, visualizing data, and monitoring systems in real time.
🔌 Data Sources
Connect to Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, SQL databases, and many others via plugins.
📊 Dashboards & Panels
Dashboards are collections of panels (graphs, tables, gauges) each driven by queries to data sources.
🧭 Variables & Filters
Use variables to create dynamic, reusable dashboards with drop-down filters for flexible views.
🚨 Alerting
Set up alert rules on queries, send notifications via Slack, email, PagerDuty, or webhooks.
📝 Annotations
Add notes or event markers on graphs to highlight deployments, incidents, or external triggers.
🧰 Transformations
Modify, join, filter, and calculate fields on query results directly within Grafana panels.
🔭 Logs, Metrics, Traces
Unify observability by integrating metrics (Prometheus), logs (Loki), and traces (Tempo) in one view.
🛡️ Permissions & Roles
Control access with organizations, teams, roles, and SSO integrations like OAuth or LDAP.
📦 Plugins
Extend capabilities with panel, data source, and app plugins from the Grafana plugin ecosystem.
⚙️ Provisioning
Manage dashboards, data sources, and alerting as code using YAML/JSON files for automation.
🚀 Deployment
Run self-hosted via Docker/Kubernetes or use Grafana Cloud for a managed observability stack.