Prometheus tells you how your systems are behaving. Loki tells you what happened. OpenSCAP tells you whether you are compliant. But three tools means three places to look.
What Grafana adds:
→ One dashboard connecting all three data sources
→ Correlation by time — metrics and logs from the same incident in one view
→ Compliance status alongside operational health
→ Unified alerting regardless of which source triggers
What Grafana is (and is not):
✓ A visualization and alerting platform
✓ A connector to Prometheus, Loki, and SCAPinoculars
✗ Not a data collector — it reads what already exists
✗ Not a replacement for Prometheus, Loki, or OpenSCAP
The best security posture is not the one with the most tools. It is the one where you can see everything clearly enough to act on it.
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[Read the full article] → https://richard-sebos.github.io/sebostechnology/posts/Grafana/
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