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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)