Grafana is used for querying and visualizing time series data and metrics for application analyzing through a web browser. Grafana offers some very interesting and useful features like Graphite target expression parser, query composer for Graphite Target Editor, Fast rendering, rich visualization fully featured panels, conversion of any panel to PNG for Graphing, Scripted dashboards, snapshot sharing, Dashboard playlists for Dashboards, Feature rich query editor UI for Elasticsearch, InfluxDB as a metric data source, OpenTSDB as metric data source and Query editor and use of Basic Auth and LDAP for user authentication.