Grafana

Grafana is the world's most popular open-source observability platform, used by over 20 million users and thousands of companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay. It transforms time-series data into beautiful graphs and visualizations, making complex metrics accessible to technical and non-technical users alike. Unlike proprietary monitoring solutions that lock you into specific ecosystems, Grafana works with virtually any data source, giving you the freedom to visualize data from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, cloud providers, databases, and hundreds of other systems in unified dashboards. This template includes a pre-configured PostgreSQL backend for optimal performance and data persistence, ready to handle production workloads from day one.

Common Use Cases

DevOps and SRE teams use Grafana to monitor infrastructure health, track application performance metrics, and visualize logs and traces in real-time dashboards with instant alerting for critical thresholds. IT operations teams build comprehensive monitoring solutions combining server metrics, network performance, and application health into executive-level dashboards that provide at-a-glance system status. Software development teams track application metrics, API response times, error rates, and deployment impacts with customizable dashboards for each microservice or component. Business intelligence teams leverage Grafana to visualize business KPIs, sales metrics, and operational data from databases, creating live dashboards that combine technical and business metrics. IoT and industrial teams monitor sensor data, equipment performance, and environmental conditions with geospatial visualizations and time-series analysis.

Key Features

• Support for 100+ data sources including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and cloud providers
• Rich visualization library with graphs, heatmaps, histograms, geomaps, and custom panels
• Powerful alerting engine with support for multiple notification channels including Slack, PagerDuty, Email, and webhooks
• Advanced query editor with visual builder and direct query language support
• Dashboard templating and variables for dynamic, reusable dashboards
• Role-based access control and team permissions for enterprise security
• Dashboard sharing and embedding for public and private use cases
• Extensive plugin ecosystem with community and enterprise plugins
• Unified observability with metrics, logs, and traces in one platform
• Mobile-friendly responsive design for monitoring on the go

Why deploy Grafana on Hostinger VPS

Running Grafana on Hostinger VPS gives you complete control over your observability stack without the recurring costs and data egress fees of cloud-hosted solutions. With dedicated resources, your Grafana instance can handle complex queries across multiple data sources, render hundreds of dashboard panels, and serve multiple concurrent users without performance degradation. Hostinger VPS ensures your monitoring infrastructure remains available and responsive even when monitoring critical production systems. The included PostgreSQL setup provides reliable storage for dashboards, alerts, and user configurations with proper data persistence and backup capabilities. You can customize Grafana's configuration, install private plugins, connect to internal data sources, and scale resources as your monitoring needs grow. For organizations with compliance requirements, running Grafana on your own VPS ensures that dashboard configurations and query history never leave your infrastructure, making it ideal for regulated industries and security-conscious teams.