# Grafana Links: [[Software Measurement]], [[InfluxDB]] [Grafana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafana) Visualizations and dashboards [With Grafana | Grafana documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/getting-started/getting-started/) ## Install [Install on macOS | Grafana documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/mac/) ## Grafana Stack - [[Time series database]] - [[InfluxDB]] - [[Prometheus (software)]] - Loki - a log aggregation platform based on Prometheus first made available in 2019 - Mimir - a metric visualization tool released in 2022 that replaced Cortex - Tempo - a tool for log tracing, released in 2021 - [[Sensu]] - [[Telegraf]] - Promtail - an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Grafana Loki instance or Grafana Cloud. It is usually deployed to every machine that runs applications which need to be monitored. - It primarily: - Discovers targets - Attaches labels to log streams - Pushes them to the Loki instance. - Currently, Promtail can tail logs from two sources: local log files and the systemd journal (on AMD64 machines only).