Grafana is a totally open source, community-supported dashboard platform for building beautiful, fully custom metrics dashboards. Grafana by raintank makes it extremely easy to connect data sources and start visualizing data in no time. The intuitive UI of the query editor allows you to build complex queries without having to write them yourself. With a unified alerting system, users will have their alerts consolidated into a single page for simplified viewing and management, including the ability to update and edit alerts from the same page. Grafana also cache's the results of backend data source queries, and offers improved reporting capabilities, including live dashboard links in reporting emails.