What is graphana? what does it do?

Graphana is an open source web application.

It supports Prometheus database and ships it inbuilt.

What purpose does it serve?

It allows you to build Charts, Graphs and Dashboards that you want to Visualize

What is the architecture of Graphana?

-> Data producer (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Virutal Machine) - Aggregate data - Temperate, weather
-> Data Source (Prometheus or any other database) - Pull data (sensor data) or Data Producer pushes data
-> Graphana queries the data source and provides a Dashboard

What are the Categories of data that Graphana visualizes over?

Metrics - CPU Load, Memory Usage
Logs - errors [TimeSliced]

What does the Dashboard show?

It shows CPU/Memory along with TimeSeries Graph that you can Zoom in and factor data for the controlled set of data.

Similar Tools:

Kibana