What data sources does the Grafana service support?

Grafana is a popular open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It supports a wide range of data sources, enabling users to visualize and analyze data from various systems and applications. Some of the common data sources that Grafana supports include:

1. Prometheus: An open-source monitoring system with a time series database. It is often used for monitoring and alerting.

   • Example: You can use Grafana to create dashboards that display metrics collected by Prometheus from a Kubernetes cluster.

2. InfluxDB: An open-source time series database optimized for high write and query loads.

   • Example: Grafana can be used to visualize time-series data from IoT devices stored in InfluxDB.

3. Graphite: A scalable monitoring tool that stores numeric time-series data.

   • Example: Grafana can pull data from Graphite to create graphs of server performance metrics.

4. Elasticsearch: A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of performing full-text searches.

   • Example: Grafana can query Elasticsearch to visualize log data or application metrics.

5. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite: Relational databases that can be queried to visualize structured data.

   • Example: Grafana can connect to a MySQL database to display sales data over time.

6. CloudWatch: Amazon Web Services' monitoring service (though not directly related to Tencent Cloud, it's a common data source).

   • Example: Grafana can be used to create dashboards for AWS resources, showing metrics like CPU utilization or network traffic.

7. Tencent Cloud Monitor: Tencent Cloud's monitoring service provides metrics for various cloud services.

   • Example: Grafana can integrate with Tencent Cloud Monitor to visualize resource usage and performance metrics of cloud instances.

Grafana's extensibility allows it to support many other data sources through plugins, making it a versatile tool for visualizing data from diverse systems.