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Monitoring & Observability

Grafana

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

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About Grafana

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.

What gets installed

Ready when the VPS starts

Compatible OS
Ubuntu 24.04
Application
Grafana
Tech stack
DockerGrafana OSS
Minimum RAM
1 GB
Minimum CPU
1 vCPU
Default port
3000
Access
root over SSH

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?

Server monitoring

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

Application monitoring

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

On-call and alerts

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

Guide

Deploy Grafana on your VPS

  1. 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).

  2. Connect Prometheus

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

  3. Import dashboards

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

  4. Configure alerts

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

Frequently asked questions

Questions about Grafana

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

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Complementary solutions

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus

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

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