Does Grafana collect the metrics itself?

No. Grafana only visualizes. To collect server metrics you need Prometheus + Node Exporter. The ServOrbit template can deploy them together.

Grafana Open Source is completely free. Grafana Cloud (hosted) has a limited free tier and then paid plans. On your VPS, you use the open-source version without any limitation.

Can Grafana be used for business metrics?

Yes. Grafana can connect to PostgreSQL or MySQL and visualize any data as graphs, gauges or tables.

Monitor your infrastructure.

Grafana

Visualize your infrastructure and application metrics — customizable dashboards and alerts.

1 GB RAM 1 vCPU Port 3000 Available

Source code

Tech stack

DockerGrafana OSS

Minimum RAM1 GB

Minimum CPU1 vCPU

Default port3000

Compatible OSubuntu-24.04

Grafana is the most widely used data-visualization platform for infrastructure monitoring. It connects to your metric sources (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Loki, PostgreSQL…) and lets you build interactive dashboards to visualize the performance of your servers, applications and databases in real time.

On your ServOrbit VPS, Grafana integrates naturally with Prometheus to monitor your entire infrastructure. The template includes preconfigured dashboards for system metrics (CPU, RAM, disk, network) — operational right from startup.

Key features

Interactive dashboards with dozens of visualization types

Connection to 50+ data sources

Multi-channel alerting system (email, Slack, Telegram)

Library of community dashboards (grafana.com/dashboards)

Annotations to correlate events and metrics

User and permission management

When to use this solution?

1

Server monitoring

Visualize the CPU, RAM, disk and network of all your VPS instances on a single unified dashboard.

2

Application monitoring

Track your applications' business metrics: requests per second, response time, error rate.

3

On-call and alerts

Set up proactive alerts to be notified before an incident affects your users.

Deploy Grafana on your VPS

Guide optimized for ServOrbit Cloud VPS.

01

Deploy Grafana

VPS with 1 GB RAM minimum. Launch Grafana with Docker: docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana. Access it on port 3000 (admin/admin by default — change it immediately).

02

Connect Prometheus

In Connections > Data sources, add Prometheus with your instance's URL (http://localhost:9090 if on the same VPS).

03

Import dashboards

In Dashboards > Import, use the IDs from the Grafana library: 1860 (Node Exporter Full), 3662 (Prometheus 2.0).

04

Configure alerts

Create alert rules on your critical metrics and configure the notification channels (email, Telegram, PagerDuty…).

Frequently asked questions

Grafana is an open-source metric-visualization platform. It displays interactive dashboards by connecting to sources such as Prometheus, InfluxDB or PostgreSQL.

Complementary solutions

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus

Real-time metric collection and querying. The de facto standard for monitoring Kubernetes, Docker and microservices.