Grafana is a powerful tool for metric visualization that allows you to query, explore, and set alerts and notifications for the data collected across your HCI system. It allows you to monitor your applications, virtual machines, and cloud services to ensure your system remains optimized and in good health.
Grafana displays a series of dashboards, which contain one or more rows of panels presented as charts and graphs. Dashboards collect and display metrics such as object data, system health information, and encryption activity, and provide you with a window into your system's performance in real-time or over specific periods of time.
Grafana dashboards are available in a centralized location and provide a tool for collecting and monitoring metrics in your HCI environment. A dashboard contains one or more rows of panels that present metrics in charts and graphs. A panel is the basic visualization building block in Grafana.