How to install grafana

Grafana is dashboard and alerting platform for time-series data. The project is developed in the open and released under its own licence.

About the project

Grafana is dashboard and alerting platform for time-series data. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

The maintainers own the project. They choose release timing, publish announcements, and write the documentation themselves. Nothing about that process is controlled from here.

Typical distribution routes

There is no single universal route here. Maintainers usually describe the supported options themselves, and the choice varies between platforms and between releases.

What to confirm beforehand

Confirm the platform is supported by the current release. Tooling in this space moves quickly, and an older system often falls outside the supported range.

Afterwards

A version query afterwards is usually enough to confirm the environment picked it up. If the result is unexpected, the usual causes are a stale path entry or a version manager resolving to a different release.

About these pages

These pages are maintained as reading notes. No project files are stored here.