This document provides an overview of Grafana, an open source metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. It discusses Grafana's features such as rich graphing, time series querying, templated queries, annotations, dashboard search and export/import. The document also covers Grafana's history and alternatives. It positions Grafana as providing richer features than Graphite Web and highlights features like multiple y-axes, unit formats, mixing graph types, thresholds and tooltips.

1. Agenda
• Background
• Overview
• Features
• Demo

2. An open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for
Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB
Based on Kibana 3 (it's just HTML, JS and CSS)
Deploy it by unzipping a tarball to a place where your
webserver can serve the contents
config.js to add data sources

3. History
TORKEL ÖDEGAARD
First release jan 2014
Work on it full time since July 2014
@torkelo
https://github.com/grafana

4. Alternative Graphite Dashboards
• Descartes
• Giraffe
• Graphitus
• Graph Explorer
• Tasseo
• GDash
• Graphitti

5. Where does it fit in?

6. Why not Graphite Web?

7. OVERVIEW
• Rich graphing features
• Rich time series query features
• Templated queries
• Annotations
• Dashboard search
• Dashboard playlists
• Export / import
• Scripted dashboards

8. GRAPHING FEATURES
• Multiple y-axis
• Y-axis unit formats (ms, bytes, percent, etc)
• Bars, lines, points (mix in same graph)
• Grid options
• Thresholds
• Tooltip hover display
• Legend values and placement options
• Select region to zoom

9. Rich graphing features
• Multiple y-axis
• Y-axis unit formats (ms, bytes, percent, etc)
• Bars, lines, points (mix in same graph)
• Grid options
• Thresholds
• Tooltip hover display
• Legend values and placement options
• Select region to zoom

10. Query features

11. Templated queries
• Generic & resuable dashboards
TEMPLATE VARIABLES
• Variables can be used in place of in
• Metric expressions
• Function parameters
• Graph & legend titles
• Variables values defined with a metric key query
• Time interval variables (1m, 10m, 1h, 6h, 1d, etc)
• Custom variable values

12. ANNOTATIONS
• Fetch event data and annotate graphs

13. New features 1.9.0
Singlestat panel
Share panel feature
Fill below to
Other graph features & enhancements
Panel links
Coming
Alerting Authentication
Graphing options (histograms etc.)

14. http://grafana.org
Docs
Features
Blog
Live Demo
http://play.grafana.org/#/dashboard/db/grafana-play-home
Talk @ Monitorama conference
http://vimeo.com/95316672