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Grafana

Grafana is an open-source metrics-visualization platform — dashboards, alerting, and panel composition over many backends (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, cloud-native metric stores). Widely used as the default "charts" surface in infra orgs.

Why it shows up on this wiki

Grafana is the ubiquitous dashboard layer that AI-agent platforms for ops end up reading out of or subsuming. In the Databricks Storex story, it is one of four fragmented tools (Grafana + internal dashboards + MySQL CLI + cloud console) that the agent unifies.

Seen in

• sources/2026-05-05-databricks-10-trillion-samples-a-day-scaling-beyond-traditional-monitoring — Lakehouse-backed PromQL face. Grafana as the user-facing query UI for Hydra, Databricks' lakehouse- native observability platform. Engineers continue writing PromQL in Grafana; the queries are translated into SQL against Delta Lake tables via a dedicated PromQL-to-SQL conversion layer, so existing dashboards + alert rules + workflows work unmodified. "This approach allows engineers to continue using familiar PromQL syntax and dashboards without modification. At the same time, the underlying queries are executed against large-scale Delta tables rather than an in-memory TSDB." Canonical first wiki instance of patterns/promql-to-sql-over-delta-tables — Grafana's interface-stability property enables a radical storage- substrate change (TSDB → lakehouse) to stay invisible to users.
• sources/2025-12-03-databricks-ai-agent-debug-databases — Databricks engineers checked Grafana for database metrics during MySQL incidents before systems/storex replaced the multi-tool stitching with one conversational interface.
• sources/2026-03-23-aws-generali-malaysia-eks-auto-mode — Grafana (via AWS-managed Amazon Managed Grafana) as the per-namespace dashboard surface for Generali's multi-tenant EKS cluster, with CloudWatch as the data source. The AWS-managed variant is the case where customers don't run the Grafana server themselves.
• sources/2026-03-31-slack-from-custom-to-open-scalable-network-probing-and-http3-readiness — Grafana as Slack's "single pane of glass" unifying Prometheus Blackbox Exporter probe metrics across HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 edge endpoints. The load-bearing Grafana value proposition in this instance: side-by-side comparison of a new transport (HTTP/3 over QUIC/UDP) against the incumbent transports (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 over TCP) unblocks observability- before-migration — "a unified view … allowing for easier correlation with other telemetry and comparison."
• — Grafana as the human-in-the-loop evaluation surface for Zalando Payments' end-to-end load tests. Latency, throughput, and response-code-rate panels are read by a developer to decide pass/fail; SLO-breach alerts fire automatically during the ~2-hour run. Acknowledged as manual-evaluation-only: "Test results have to be manually evaluated to decide if the outcome is successful or not, which is sufficient for us for the time being."
• sources/2026-04-22-grafana-grafana-labs-acquires-logline — first-party Grafana Labs post (Grafana being the vendor's dashboard product; Grafana Labs is the company). Acquisition announcement for Logline as a secondary index for Loki's high-cardinality query gap. Not about the Grafana dashboard itself; included here to canonicalise the Grafana-Labs → Loki → Logline lineage for cross-reference.
• sources/2026-04-22-grafana-introducing-pyroscope-2-0 — GrafanaCON 2026 launch of Pyroscope 2.0, Grafana Labs' rearchitected continuous-profiling database. Again not about the Grafana dashboard itself, but canonicalises the Grafana-Labs → Pyroscope 2.0 lineage — Grafana dashboards consume Pyroscope's flame graphs as their profiles panel.
• sources/2026-04-29-grafana-get-observability-in-the-terminal-for-you-and-your-agents-with-the-gcx-cli-tool — 2026-04-29 launch of gcx, the Grafana Cloud agent-ergonomic CLI. Grafana's dashboard UI becomes the destination of deep-link handoffs from the CLI: "Open a deep link into Grafana Cloud the moment a human needs to look." Canonical wiki instance of the Grafana dashboard as a UI-handoff target for agent-driven workflows that start in the terminal. The CLI also pulls/edits/pushes dashboards as local files (observability-as-code), making Grafana dashboards a first-class as-code artifact alongside alerts, SLOs, and synthetic checks.

Related

• concepts/observability
• concepts/client-side-black-box-probe
• systems/storex
• systems/amazon-managed-grafana — AWS's managed Grafana offering.
• systems/prometheus-blackbox-exporter — the probe source in the Slack single-pane-of-glass instance.
• systems/loki — Grafana Labs' log-aggregation sibling system.
• systems/logline — 2026-04 Grafana Labs acquisition; high-cardinality secondary index for Loki.
• systems/grafana-cloud-logs — managed Loki offering.
• systems/pyroscope-2 — Grafana Labs' rearchitected continuous-profiling database (2026-04-22 launch). Source of the flame-graph panels Grafana renders.
• systems/grafana-mimir — Grafana Labs' metrics database; Prometheus-compatible backend for Grafana metrics panels.
• systems/cortex — the common architectural ancestor of Mimir, Loki, and Pyroscope 1.x.
• concepts/continuous-profiling — the fourth observability signal Grafana panels now render alongside metrics/logs/traces.
• companies/grafana — Grafana Labs, the vendor.