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Re:Ask HN: What software do you need, that doesn't exist? by amcaskill on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:43PM (#37774010)
Out of interest, what exactly do people use Grafana for? Is it always monitoring infrastructure/ systems or is it more general purpose than that? What is special about it?

I come previously ran an analytics team and I work on an open source BI tool (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) but I have never actually used grafana or come across it when talking to other "business analytics" folks. Everyone in my world is just using tableau or looker or jupyter notebooks.

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Re:Ask HN: What software do you need, that doesn't exist? by seanthemon on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:01AM (#37775061)
Easy to configure, good looking dashboards with a lot of different integrations.

Meaning pretty much any team with basic know-how can get a monitoring dashboard going, or several for different resources and cases. It's main focus is monitoring.

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Re:Ask HN: What software do you need, that doesn't exist? by XCSme on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:35AM (#37779962)
I used it in various projects, from monitoring infrastructure to storing custom events and generating graphs/visualizations.

Once you have your data sources connected, it's easy to create all kind of graphs and alerts.

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