Grafana Consulting
Dashboards & Observability
How busy are your systems right now, and what was the situation like last week? Through our Grafana consulting services, we help you build dashboards and alerting systems that integrate metrics, logs, and traces. This way, you can see at a glance what’s happening in your infrastructure.
Without dashboards, it gets tedious
Analyses require manual effort
If the IT management asks about utilization or availability, someone puts together screenshots and spreadsheets. By the time the numbers are ready, they’ll already be out of date.
Five Tools for Dealing with a Malfunction
Metrics, logs, and status messages are displayed in different interfaces. When a problem arises, your team has to switch back and forth between tools and manually reconcile timestamps.
Capacity Planning Based on Gut Feelings
Without historical data, we can only estimate whether you’ll need more storage or computing power next year. Bottlenecks aren’t noticed until they slow down operations.
What Grafana Does
Grafana brings together metrics, logs, and traces from your existing tools into unified dashboards, allowing you to identify patterns and make informed decisions faster.
Any data source
Individual dashboards
From simple charts to complex panels: you decide how your data is displayed. This allows you to make informed decisions faster and more efficiently.
Überwachung & Alarmierung
Grafana Alerting continuously checks your data against rules and notifies you via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or your preferred channel as soon as a threshold is exceeded.
Metriken, Logs & Traces vereint
Correlated observability instead of isolated solutions: Grafana brings together time series, logs (e.g. Loki) and traces so that you can jump directly from the anomaly to the cause.
Teilen & Zusammenarbeiten
You can quickly share dashboards and views with colleagues and centrally manage access via the connection to Active Directory. This way, your team looks at the same figures together.
Diverse visualizations
Bars, cakes, charts, tables or individual values – the right display for every application. This makes complex data understandable at a glance.
Why set up Grafana with NETWAYS?
We have been operating open-source infrastructures for over 30 years and regularly use Grafana in our monitoring projects. At Grafana Consulting, you’ll receive guidance from the same team that conducts our Grafana training sessions. This way, you’ll get dashboards that work in everyday use—and the knowledge to further develop them yourself.
An Overview of the Grafana Web Interface
Here is an overview of the Grafana web interface. The labels explain the dashboard’s key components and functions.
Jump quickly between different dashboards.
Log in with your own access data or use the option of attaching Grafana to a directory service such as Active Directory.
Use various visualization options, such as bars, cakes or chart diagrams, to display your data in a way that suits you.
Quickly and easily define the period for which the data should be displayed.
Quickly share dashboards and views with colleagues to take a look at data together.
Display information not only graphically, but also supplement the view with direct values and names.
Here’s How Your Grafana Consultation Works
Four Steps to Creating Dashboards Your Team Can Use Every Day.
Analyse & Konzept
Aufbau & Integration
Inbetriebnahme & Visualisierung
Your Grafana setup goes live, data is visible in real time and presented in an understandable way via dashboards. This gives you insight into the availability, performance, and status of your systems, rather than just collecting data that no one analyzes.
Support & Betrieb
Upon request, we can take over day-to-day operations entirely or assist your team with support and training. This ensures that your Grafana stack remains stable, up-to-date, and practical.
Shaping IT together
We help you to strategically plan, technically implement and sustainably operate modern IT and monitoring solutions. We combine consulting, implementation and support to create a tailor-made service that is geared to your requirements. Our aim is to make complex systems transparent, stable and efficient to use.
Grafana Training
Learn to visualize and analyze data clearly
In our Grafana training course, you will learn the basics of the Grafana Stack and everything you need for observability monitoring in larger and more complex environments. You will learn about the structure and functionality of the tools and consolidate your knowledge through practical exercises. You will also learn in detail how to get from Data Ingestion to your first alert.
Expertise in Grafana
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The Icinga Web Grafana module has found a new home
We are happy to announce that the Icinga Web Grafana module has found a new home! Originally developed by Carsten (Mikesch-mp), this module is a valuable extension of the Icinga ecosystem and enables the integration of Grafana into the Icinga web interface. By handing...
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Frequently Asked Questions About Grafana
What can you do with Grafana?
With Grafana, you can visualize data from various sources and display it in interactive dashboards to monitor important metrics and time series. It enables the creation of real-time dashboards with which users can analyze data from monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch or InfluxDB. Grafana is often used to track system performance, application metrics or business metrics in a clear and customizable way.
Is Grafana free of charge? What does Grafana cost?
Grafana offers a free, open-source version that includes many core features, such as creating dashboards and visualizing data from various sources. There are also paid plans such as "Grafana Cloud" and "Grafana Enterprise", which offer extended functions, more storage space and support. We will be happy to answer all your questions about the right model for you and the corresponding costs.
Is Grafana open source?
Yes, Grafana is open source and is developed under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows developers to view, modify and extend the source code. The open source version of Grafana offers many basic functions such as the creation of dashboards and integration with various data sources. In addition, there are commercial versions with extended features that are specifically intended for companies, but the core software remains freely available.
How do I install Grafana?
To install Grafana, download the appropriate installation package for your operating system from the official Grafana website or use package managers such as "apt" for Ubuntu or "yum" for CentOS. After installation, start the Grafana service with the command "sudo systemctl start grafana-server" and make sure that the service starts automatically at every boot. You can then access Grafana via a web browser by going to "http://localhost:3000" to start configuring and creating dashboards.
How do I start Grafana?
To start Grafana, you can use the command "sudo systemctl start grafana-server" on a Linux system after it has been installed. To ensure that it runs automatically at every system start, you can execute the command "sudo systemctl enable grafana-server". You then access the web interface via a browser at "http://localhost:3000", where you can log in and work with Grafana.
How does Grafana work?
Grafana retrieves data from various sources such as Prometheus, InfluxDB or Elasticsearch and visualizes it in interactive, customizable dashboards. Users can create queries to analyze specific metrics or time series data and display them in charts, graphs or other widgets. Through notifications and alerts, Grafana can also automatically warn at certain thresholds, making it a valuable tool for monitoring systems and applications.
How much does a Grafana consultation at NETWAYS cost?
The cost of a Grafana consulting project depends on how many data sources are connected and whether it involves a new implementation or an existing setup. During the free initial consultation, we'll discuss your needs and then provide you with a specific quote.
