Grafana

App in the BluixApps catalog

What it is

Grafana is the industry-standard observability dashboard — visualizes metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, InfluxDB, and 100+ other data sources. Alerts, anomaly detection, scheduled reports, multi-tenancy, RBAC — everything a production-ops team needs in one place.

The community-edition (AGPLv3) is the same engine that powers Grafana Cloud — full feature parity for self-hosters.

What it's for

  • Infrastructure monitoring — CPU, RAM, disk, network across the VPS fleet
  • Application metrics — request rate, error rate, latency from your services via Prometheus
  • Centralized logging — Loki pipeline for app + system logs with full-text search
  • Distributed tracing — Tempo / Jaeger integration for microservice debugging
  • Business dashboards — connect to Postgres / MySQL and visualize ops KPIs
  • Alerting — Slack / Telegram / PagerDuty / email when something breaks

Who it's for

  • SRE / DevOps teams running production infrastructure and needing unified metrics + logs + traces
  • Engineering managers building business KPI dashboards from Postgres / data warehouse
  • Hosting providers offering customer-facing tenant dashboards for VPS observability
  • Solo developers monitoring side-project VPS health, alerting on disk/CPU thresholds
  • Multi-cloud platform teams unifying AWS + GCP + Hetzner + on-prem in a single pane of glass

Why teams pick Grafana over alternatives

  • Open observability standard — every modern tool (Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Cloudflare) ships a Grafana dashboard
  • 100+ data sources — single pane of glass for heterogeneous stacks
  • Dashboard marketplace — grafana.com/grafana/dashboards has thousands of pre-built dashboards
  • Modern alerting — unified rules engine across all data sources, replaces Alertmanager-only setups
  • Mature RBAC + SSO — OAuth, LDAP, SAML; per-folder permissions
  • AGPLv3 community version — no feature gating for self-host

Integrations

  • Time-series data sources — Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTSDB, Datadog
  • Logs — Loki, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Splunk via plugin
  • Traces — Tempo, Jaeger, Zipkin
  • SQL data sources — Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse
  • Cloud-native — CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure Monitor
  • Alert channels — Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, Telegram, email, Mattermost, custom webhook
  • Identity — OAuth (Google, GitHub, Microsoft), LDAP, SAML, SSO via Authelia/Authentik proxy

Notable users & community

  • 65k+ GitHub stars
  • Used by virtually every modern engineering org (Netflix, Bloomberg, eBay, Wikipedia, Spotify…)
  • Massive ecosystem: Grafana Labs Slack with tens of thousands of members
  • KubeCon / SREcon / ObservabilityCon talks every year
  • Public roadmap, weekly community calls, predictable LTS release cadence

Tips & operations

  • Set GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD via env — default admin/admin is a security incident waiting to happen
  • Datasource provisioning via /etc/grafana/provisioning/ — config-as-code beats UI clicks; survives Grafana upgrades cleanly
  • Use folder permissions for team isolation — don't rely on dashboard-level RBAC alone; folders scale better
  • Pin anonymous / public dashboards behind a deliberate folder — easy to leak internal data otherwise
  • Image renderer plugin = optional — only install if you need PDF/PNG export; pulls ~500 MB headless Chromium
  • Beware unbounded queries — Loki / Prometheus queries without LIMIT or time range can OOM the panel and impact server

What we ship in BluixApps

  • Docker compose: Grafana + persistent volume for dashboards + Prometheus sidecar (optional)
  • Pinned grafana/grafana:11.4.0, monthly upstream tracking
  • Admin user with random password on first boot, surfaced in install report
  • HTTPS via Let's Encrypt; OAuth / LDAP config documented for Enterprise tier
  • Pre-installed dashboards for the host VPS (Node Exporter style)
  • Auto-discovery of Prometheus / Loki when those apps are deployed on the same VPS
  • Backup hook covers /var/lib/grafana (dashboards, alerts, users)
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