Grafana
grafana.comGrafana is an open, widely adopted observability and analytics platform for turning time-series data into clear dashboards. Teams use Grafana to visualize system health, track performance, and surface anomalies across data sources like metrics, logs, and traces. With flexible dashboard management, alerting capabilities, and rich integrations, Grafana is trusted for reliable monitoring and operational insight in production environments.
Connecting Grafana lets BOBs actively operate your monitoring setup instead of relying on manual dashboard checks. BOBs can search and retrieve the right dashboards, inspect folders and data sources, and query live metrics to answer operational questions quickly (e.g., “What changed since last hour?” “Are error rates rising?”). They can also manage observability assets—saving dashboards, listing and organizing content, and maintaining alert rules so your team’s monitoring stays current as systems evolve.
BOBs can further enhance incident context by adding annotations to dashboards when specific conditions are detected or when operational milestones occur. This keeps timelines clear for everyone reviewing performance and stability. Broader use cases include proactive performance monitoring, automated incident context capture, and continuous dashboard upkeep across environments (staging/production) and services.
What can BOBs do with Grafana?
Perform actions
- Create Annotation
- Delete Dashboard
- Get Current User
- Get Dashboard
- List Alert Rules
- List Data Sources
- List Folders
- Query Data Source
- Save Dashboard
- Search Dashboards