Monday, November 18, 2024

Grafana FAQ

What is Grafana?

Grafana is open source visualization and alerting tool. It is widely used for interactive dashboards.


What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is a time-series database


What is Thanos?

Thanos is an aggregator of multiple Prometheus instances


What is pull-based model in Prometheus?

Prometheus collects metrics from defined endpoint. It scrapes data  on a configured interval. Architecturally, its a pull-based model rather than push/insert data.


What are the exporters and examples? 

  • Blackbox exporters
  • Firehose exporters
  • cf exporters


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