Grafana

Grafana is an open-source observability platform that is used to visualize data that is genrally booring. It can visualize metrics like Cpu, Temprature, Memory usage , logs with different log levels and also traces. It conatins plugins to handle seemless integration between tools and techonlogies like azure, google sheets, Github, Datadog etc.

Features

• Pannels to vizualize different types of graphs.
• Plugins for seemless integrations.
• Alerts if something goes wrong
• Tranformations to rename, summarize, combine, and perform calculations across different queries and data sources.
• Annotations to add a description or a tag for a specific area.

Pros

• Graphing lots of data
• Simplicity of setup
• Graphs and dashboards are portable (Graph-as-a-Code).
• Stunning dashboards

Cons

• Configuration plugins
• Automation of setups
• There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).