Managed Service for Grafana is a cloud-native O&M data visualization platform on Alibaba Cloud. It provides O&M-free and quick startup of Grafana runtime environments with built-in Alibaba Cloud integrations to visualize metrics, logs, and traces -- without provisioning servers or maintaining Grafana installations.
The service is fully compatible with open-source Grafana. For details, see Grafana official documentation.
Why use Managed Service for Grafana?
Focus on dashboards, not infrastructure. The service provides high-availability Grafana environments without the need to manage O&M servers. You do not need to manage server configurations or software updates. This improves O&M efficiency and reduces your workloads. In addition, the cloud-native capabilities of Alibaba Cloud improve the security and availability of the service.
Bring all your data into one view. Connect Alibaba Cloud services, self-managed data stores in virtual private clouds (VPCs), and third-party cloud data sources to a single workspace. Query across data sources, correlate metrics with logs, and build unified dashboards from one place.
Control access with fine-grained permissions. Authenticate users through Alibaba Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) or your own account system, and manage who can view or edit specific data sources and dashboards.
Supported data sources
Managed Service for Grafana integrates with the following Alibaba Cloud services out of the box, with pre-configured data source settings, preset dashboards, and alert rules:
Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS)
Managed Service for Prometheus
CloudMonitor
Simple Log Service (SLS)
Elasticsearch
Database services
Message Queue
Beyond Alibaba Cloud services, you can connect two additional categories of data sources:
Self-managed data sources in VPCs -- Connect data stores such as Elasticsearch and InfluxDB running in your VPCs. You can connect multiple VPCs in the same region to a single workspace for unified querying and alerting.
Third-party cloud data sources -- Use Grafana plug-ins to connect external data sources through APIs, rendering data in real time without migration or ingestion.
Core capabilities
Query across data sources
Query, rename, aggregate, and group data from different data sources. Run calculations that span multiple sources from a single dashboard.
Manage alerts centrally
Create, manage, and silence alerts across all connected data sources. Configure alert rules for Alibaba Cloud services.
Extend with plug-ins
Add plug-ins to connect additional tools and data sources through APIs -- no data migration required.
Customize panels
Build and customize panels through a consistent editor interface. Set data options, adjust visualizations, and browse all panels from one place.
Billing
For pricing details, see Billing rules.