Grafana Has a Free Dashboard Platform for Visualizing Metrics Logs and Traces

Grafana is the open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Create dashboards for any data source — Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL.

What You Get for Free

• Beautiful dashboards — drag-and-drop panels
• 50+ data sources — Prometheus, InfluxDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Alerting — multi-channel notifications
• Annotations — mark events on graphs
• Variables — dynamic, interactive dashboards
• Plugins — community panels and data sources
• Grafana Cloud — free tier: 10K metrics, 50GB logs

Quick Start

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

Login at http://localhost:3000 (admin/admin).

Prometheus Dashboard

# CPU usage by pod
rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total[5m])

# Memory usage
container_memory_usage_bytes{namespace="production"}

# Request latency p99
histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m]))

Grafana Cloud Free Tier

• 10K Prometheus metrics
• 50GB logs (Loki)
• 50GB traces (Tempo)
• 3 users
• 14-day retention

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Need monitoring dashboards? Check my work on GitHub or email [e-mail] for consulting.