Developer Tools Review
Grafana
Deep Dive Analysis
Grafana turns metrics, logs and traces into dashboards, and connects to almost any data source. The open-source version is fully capable; the cloud version removes the operational work.
Target Audience
Any team that needs to see what its systems are doing, from one server to a large fleet.
The Final Verdict
"The default choice for dashboards, and rightly so. Budget time for building the dashboards, not just installing it."
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What we checked
Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.