[berkes]

Seconded. While I like the idea of Grafana, and use it for some projects, it lacks features in the graphing and dashboarding part. I too presumed this is because they are spending more on backends, pipelines and collection..

I don't need more backends, pipelines or collections. I need a frontend to display the data that I have (in backends) already.

I need to:

* Be able to pipe KPIs into a storage. Doesn't need big-data, high-volume, or extreme granularity. OR

* Have grafana grab data from an API/HTTP endpoint. It does this with prometheus just fine.

* Have a way to insert some of my own figures. Currently I wire up some google-sheet to grafana and fill that. I always have some data that I cannot or will not (yet) grab automatically. Like "amount of hours spent working on project" or "MRR" or such.

Its possible with Grafana. But the experience is subpar, the tweaking and wiggling is big and the outcome is an OK-ish, but not too convincing dashboard. I'm convinced an alternative that tackles this better (for niches) will eat into grafana.