Grafana
In plain terms
An open-source platform for visualizing metrics and logs.
Going deeper
Grafana builds dashboards from many data sources, popular for visualizing time-series metrics like those from Prometheus. It turns metrics into insight.
Under the hood
Data-source agnostic with alerting; commonly paired with Prometheus and Loki.
Examples
Metrics dashboards, Prometheus visualization, monitoring, alerting, observability.
Think of it like...
Like a customizable dashboard of gauges and charts for your systems.