Grafana

Grafana is the leading open-source platform for visualising data from a wide variety of sources in interactive dashboards. Whether it’s server metrics from Prometheus, business figures from SQL databases or measurement data from InfluxDB: Grafana connects to hundreds of data sources and turns scattered figures into a centralised overview. With the query editor, you can build reports without any coding, and the built-in alerting system notifies your team as soon as thresholds are exceeded. With Managed Grafana Hosting, you can benefit from all this without having to install, secure or maintain an instance yourself.

Who is Grafana suitable for?

Grafana is ideal for Swiss SMEs and IT service providers who wish to monitor their systems and key performance indicators in one place: IT teams and agencies visualise server, network and application metrics for their own infrastructure or that managed on behalf of clients; senior management keep track of KPIs from various databases on a single dashboard; and industrial or building services companies analyse sensor data. Unlike services such as Datadog, there are no rapidly rising costs charged per host – you pay a fixed fee for your own instance with unlimited dashboards.

Grafana hosting in Switzerland

With OpenHosting, your Grafana runs in Swiss data centres in the Zurich region. Dashboards, user accounts and data source access remain in Switzerland and are handled in accordance with the nDSG – a particularly important consideration when accessing internal databases. The service is fully managed: we apply updates, monitor the instance and back up your configuration daily in accordance with the 3-2-1 principle. The Business Plan includes hourly backups, team roles for differentiated access rights and enterprise plugins.

Existing dashboards can be imported from an existing Grafana installation; our support team will guide you through the migration and help you connect your data sources. Managed Grafana hosting is available from CHF 19 per month with unlimited dashboards – predictable, independent and, if required, combined with a hosted Prometheus instance.