Grafana — glossary
TL;DR
Visualization layer for Prometheus, Loki, and other sources.
Key facts
- Term
- Grafana
TL;DR
Grafana is a visualization and dashboarding layer for metrics and logs — commonly paired with Prometheus, Loki, or cloud vendors.
Build vs buy time
Dashboards do not restart PHP-FPM at 3am. Teams pair Grafana with on-call runbooks or adopt platforms that include remediation — see Reflex vs Grafana.