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Grafana — glossary

TL;DR

Visualization layer for Prometheus, Loki, and other sources.

Key facts

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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.

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