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page_description: Introduction to Grafana.
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page_keywords: grafana, introduction, documentation, about
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# About
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# About Grafana
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Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. Its focused on providing
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rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs. It currently
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has rich support for for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org)
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and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). But supports other data sources via plugins.
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Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing
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rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through
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a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/),
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[InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org) and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). But supports other data sources via plugins.
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It is most common usage is for infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring and metric analytics. But Grafana
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has an open architecture and design that enabled is to be used in other domains as well, like home automation,
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weather and industrial sensors analytics.
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## Support
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If you have any trouble with Grafana, either the install or some feature you do not understand or you suspect isn't working
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correctly there are a number of sources where you can get help.
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- [Troubleshooting guide](../troubleshooting)
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- \#grafana IRC channel on freenode
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- Search closed and open [issues on github](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues).
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- [Mailing list](https://groups.io/org/groupsio/grafana)
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Do not hesitate to open a new issue with a question, bug report or an idea for improvement.
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User feedback and involvement is paramount to making a product better so please take the time and create an issue.
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## Paid support
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If you wish to get paid support please [contact us](mailto:contact@grafana.org).
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## License
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# Installation
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Grafana is a frontend for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org)
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and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net) with powerfull visualization features for time series data.
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You will need either a Graphite, InfluxDB or OpenTSDB server for Grafana to be of any use.
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## Download
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[Download](/download) the latest release. The release package contain a subfolder, for example **grafana-1.7.0**. The
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[Download](http://grafana.org/download) the latest release. The release package contain a subfolder, for example **grafana-1.7.0**. The
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contents of this folder should be hosted by a web server, for example nginx, apache, IIS. The standard release
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packages does not contain a web server to host Grafana.
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h1 Grafana video tour
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.row
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| This video will show you some of the basic features like building graphs and dashboards. It is a little outdated, the function
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| editor has been much improved since this video was made.
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iframe width="513" height="317" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OUvJamHeMpw?vq=hd1080" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="1"
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h1 Grafana 1.5 Function editor
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.panel.callout
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| This video demos the new Graphite function editor that was introduced in Grafana v1.5
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iframe width="513" height="317" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/I90WHRwE1ZM?vq=hd1080" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="1"
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page_title: Support
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page_description: Support options for Grafana.
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page_keywords: grafana, support, documentation
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# Support
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If you have any trouble with Grafana, either the install or some feature you do not understand or you suspect isn't working
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correctly there are a number of sources where you can get help.
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- [Troubleshooting guide](../troubleshooting)
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- \#grafana IRC channel on freenode
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- Search closed and open [issues on github](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues).
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- [Mailing list](https://groups.io/org/groupsio/grafana)
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Do not hesitate to open a new issue with a question, bug report or an idea for improvement.
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User feedback and involvement is paramount to making a product better so please take the time and create an issue.
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## Paid support
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If you wish to get paid support please [contact us](mailto:contact@grafana.org).
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