Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the terminal

Posted by lmazgon on Friday March 27, 2026 @07:36AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/lovromazgon/grafana-tui

I built a terminal UI for browsing Grafana dashboards. It connects to any Grafana instance and lets you explore dashboards without leaving the terminal.

It renders the most common panel types (time series, bar charts, gauges, heatmaps etc.). You can change the time range, set dashboard variables and filter series.

I built this because I spend most of my day in the terminal and wanted a quick way to glance at dashboards without switching to the browser. It's not perfect by any means, but it's a nifty and useful tool.

Built with Go, Bubble Tea, ntcharts, and Claude (of course). You can install it via Homebrew:

    brew install lovromazgon/tap/grafana-tui

... and try it out against Grafana's public playground:

    grafana-tui --url https://play.grafana.org

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by mitul005 on Friday March 27, 2026 @07:40AM (#47541476)

The use case that immediately jumps out to me: being SSHed into a prod server during an incident and not wanting to context-switch to a browser just to eyeball a dashboard. Right now that context switch feels small but it breaks the flow at exactly the wrong moment. Curious how it handles Grafana's templating variables (the dropdowns that filter by host, environment, etc.) — those are load-bearing for most of our dashboards. If that's supported, this goes from "neat demo" to genuinely useful in incident response.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by lmazgon on Friday March 27, 2026 @11:38AM (#47544089)

It should handle the templating variables, at least from what I've tested on our dashboards. It gives you a list of available options just like in the Grafana UI. Try it out, once you select a dashboard you can press `v` and set the vars.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by mitul005 on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:00PM (#47546823)

Cool will try

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by mkellercz on Saturday March 28, 2026 @02:16AM (#47552100)

We actually use Grafana at work. What was the reasoning behind choosing a terminal instead of a browser? Otherwise, it’s a nice tool.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by lmazgon on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:39AM (#47615140)

Why not? ;) I like nice TUI apps and noticed there is none for Grafana.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by munch-o-man on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:09PM (#47559553)

this looks very interesting...I'm gonna give it a test drive later. Threw a star on the repo so I won't forget to come back to it.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by noobnooc on Sunday March 29, 2026 @03:34AM (#47561112)

If you're using Grafana for monitoring, you might also want to get those alerts as actual phone calls on iOS — Echobell (https://echobell.one) takes your Grafana webhook and turns it into a push notification or even a phone call that bypasses silent mode.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by spbuilds on Sunday March 29, 2026 @03:20PM (#47566263)

Nice structure — separating the Grafana client from the TUI layer should make it easier to extend. Also cool to see testcontainers for integration tests.

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by david1-618 on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:33AM (#47588900)

This is cool. I could see it useful for ops and dev teams. Would still need Grafana to be visible in the UI for less tech savvy support teams, etc..

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Re:Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the t... by lmazgon on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:35AM (#47615092)

This is not meant to replace Grafana, it actually calls into a Grafana instance to fetch dashboards and query data. It's just an alternative way to display the dashboards you already have in an existing Grafana instance.

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