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by amcaskill 982 days ago
Out of interest, what exactly do people use Grafana for? Is it always monitoring infrastructure/ systems or is it more general purpose than that? What is special about it?

I come previously ran an analytics team and I work on an open source BI tool (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) but I have never actually used grafana or come across it when talking to other "business analytics" folks. Everyone in my world is just using tableau or looker or jupyter notebooks.
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seanthemon 982 days ago
Easy to configure, good looking dashboards with a lot of different integrations.

Meaning pretty much any team with basic know-how can get a monitoring dashboard going, or several for different resources and cases. It's main focus is monitoring.

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XCSme 982 days ago
I used it in various projects, from monitoring infrastructure to storing custom events and generating graphs/visualizations.

Once you have your data sources connected, it's easy to create all kind of graphs and alerts.

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