Grafana
App in the BluixApps catalog
What it is
Grafana is the industry-standard observability dashboard — visualizes metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, InfluxDB, and 100+ other data sources. Alerts, anomaly detection, scheduled reports, multi-tenancy, RBAC — everything a production-ops team needs in one place.
The community-edition (AGPLv3) is the same engine that powers Grafana Cloud — full feature parity for self-hosters.
What it's for
- Infrastructure monitoring — CPU, RAM, disk, network across the VPS fleet
- Application metrics — request rate, error rate, latency from your services via Prometheus
- Centralized logging — Loki pipeline for app + system logs with full-text search
- Distributed tracing — Tempo / Jaeger integration for microservice debugging
- Business dashboards — connect to Postgres / MySQL and visualize ops KPIs
- Alerting — Slack / Telegram / PagerDuty / email when something breaks
Who it's for
- SRE / DevOps teams running production infrastructure and needing unified metrics + logs + traces
- Engineering managers building business KPI dashboards from Postgres / data warehouse
- Hosting providers offering customer-facing tenant dashboards for VPS observability
- Solo developers monitoring side-project VPS health, alerting on disk/CPU thresholds
- Multi-cloud platform teams unifying AWS + GCP + Hetzner + on-prem in a single pane of glass
Why teams pick Grafana over alternatives
- Open observability standard — every modern tool (Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Cloudflare) ships a Grafana dashboard
- 100+ data sources — single pane of glass for heterogeneous stacks
- Dashboard marketplace — grafana.com/grafana/dashboards has thousands of pre-built dashboards
- Modern alerting — unified rules engine across all data sources, replaces Alertmanager-only setups
- Mature RBAC + SSO — OAuth, LDAP, SAML; per-folder permissions
- AGPLv3 community version — no feature gating for self-host
Integrations
- Time-series data sources — Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTSDB, Datadog
- Logs — Loki, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Splunk via plugin
- Traces — Tempo, Jaeger, Zipkin
- SQL data sources — Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse
- Cloud-native — CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure Monitor
- Alert channels — Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, Telegram, email, Mattermost, custom webhook
- Identity — OAuth (Google, GitHub, Microsoft), LDAP, SAML, SSO via Authelia/Authentik proxy
Notable users & community
- 65k+ GitHub stars
- Used by virtually every modern engineering org (Netflix, Bloomberg, eBay, Wikipedia, Spotify…)
- Massive ecosystem: Grafana Labs Slack with tens of thousands of members
- KubeCon / SREcon / ObservabilityCon talks every year
- Public roadmap, weekly community calls, predictable LTS release cadence
Tips & operations
- Set
GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORDvia env — defaultadmin/adminis a security incident waiting to happen - Datasource provisioning via
/etc/grafana/provisioning/— config-as-code beats UI clicks; survives Grafana upgrades cleanly - Use folder permissions for team isolation — don't rely on dashboard-level RBAC alone; folders scale better
- Pin anonymous / public dashboards behind a deliberate folder — easy to leak internal data otherwise
- Image renderer plugin = optional — only install if you need PDF/PNG export; pulls ~500 MB headless Chromium
- Beware unbounded queries — Loki / Prometheus queries without LIMIT or time range can OOM the panel and impact server
What we ship in BluixApps
- Docker compose: Grafana + persistent volume for dashboards + Prometheus sidecar (optional)
- Pinned
grafana/grafana:11.4.0, monthly upstream tracking - Admin user with random password on first boot, surfaced in install report
- HTTPS via Let's Encrypt; OAuth / LDAP config documented for Enterprise tier
- Pre-installed dashboards for the host VPS (Node Exporter style)
- Auto-discovery of Prometheus / Loki when those apps are deployed on the same VPS
- Backup hook covers
/var/lib/grafana(dashboards, alerts, users)
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |
