dead2eer / grafana

Grafana - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor

Grafana

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Grafana is An open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.

Features

Graphite Target Editor

• Graphite target expression parser
• Feature rich query composer
• Quickly add and edit functions & parameters
• Templated queries
• See it in action

Graphing

• Fast rendering, even over large timespans.
• Click and drag to zoom.
• Multiple Y-axis.
• Bars, Lines, Points.
• Smart Y-axis formating
• Series toggles & color selector
• Legend values, and formating options
• Grid thresholds, axis labels
• Annotations

Dashboards

• Create, edit, save & search dashboards
• Change column spans and row heights
• Drag and drop panels to rearrange
• Use InfluxDB or Elasticsearch as dashboard storage
• Import & export dashboard (json file)
• Import dashboard from Graphite
• Templating
• Scripted dashboards
• Dashboard playlists
• Time range controls

InfluxDB

• Use InfluxDB as a metric data source, annotation source and for dashboard storage
• Query editor with series and column typeahead, easy group by and function selection

OpenTSDB

• Use as metric data source
• Query editor with metric name typeahead and tag filtering

Requirements

There are no dependencies, Grafana is a client side application that runs in your browser. It only needs a time series store where it can fetch metrics. If you use InfluxDB Grafana can use it to store dashboards. If you use Graphite or OpenTSDB you can use Elasticsearch to store dashboards or just use json files stored on disk.

Installation

Head to grafana.org and download the latest release.

Then follow the quick setup & config guide. If you have any problems please read the troubleshooting guide.

Documentation & Support

Be sure to read the getting started guide and the other feature guides.

Roadmap

• Improve graphite query editor to handle all types of queries
• Refine and simplify common tasks
• More panel types (not just graphs)
• Improve templating support
• Alerting
• Optional backend component
• Much much more! (what ever gets votes on github issues!)

Contribute

If you have any idea for an improvement or found a bug do not hesitate to open an issue. And if you have time clone this repo and submit a pull request and help me make Grafana the kickass metrics & devops dashboard we all dream about!

Clone repository:

• npm install
• grunt server (starts development web server in src folder)
• grunt (runs jshint and less -> css compilation)
• npm test runs jshint, and unit tests

Before submitting a PR be sure that there are no jshint or unit test failures. And sign the CLA

License

Grafana is distributed under Apache 2.0 License.