Overview

Exoscale’s Managed Grafana provides a fully managed observability platform ideal for cloud-native environments. It allows you to launch a Grafana instance within minutes and set up a monitoring solution for your systems and applications, combining data from various sources into a single dashboard

Terminology

Grafana Service

a managed deployment of the Grafana OSS application on Exoscale

Data Source

external system (Prometheus, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, etc.) queried by Grafana

Dashboard

collection of panels that visualise data from one or more data sources

Alert Rule

condition evaluated on dashboard queries; triggers a notification channel when firing

Plugin

community or official extension that adds panels, data sources, or apps

Features

Managed Lifecycle

one-click provisioning, seamless point-release upgrades and simple plan scaling

Secure by Default

TLS on the public endpoint, SSO via Exoscale IAM or native Grafana users

Dashboards & Alerting

full Grafana OSS feature set, including Alerting v2 and alert rules as code

Plugin Catalogue

curated selection of official and community plugins pre-approved by Exoscale

Exoscale Integrations

ready-made data sources for Metrics, DBaaS logs and OpenSearch indices

Automated Backups

daily off-site snapshots of Grafana’s SQLite/PostgreSQL storage (plan-dependent)