How to Build Your Own Grafana
Replace Grafana with a custom build. The open and composable observability platform
Build Difficulty: 5/5
Build a working replacement in a weekend with AI tools
Estimated Timeline
Based on 36 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components
PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions
Utility-first styling for rapid UI development
Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 36 features
Integration(5 features)
Hook into existing data sources via APIs and render data in real time without requiring data migration
Native OTel ingestion without custom metrics or vendor lock-in for standardized telemetry collection
Connect Grafana to data sources, apps, and more via extensible plugin architecture
Get metrics into Prometheus quickly with community-maintained exporters
Native support for Prometheus metrics with PromQL querying and Kubernetes monitoring
AI(4 features)
Identify anomalies and reduce toil with AI-powered analysis
Automatically correlate and identify related anomalies in your observability data
Add an intelligence layer to telemetry data to automatically correlate related issues and uncover root causes quickly
LLM agent built directly into Grafana Cloud for chat-based operations like fixing dashboards and making stack changes
Cost Optimization(3 features)
Identifies commonly ingested log patterns and provides customized recommendations for dropping unused telemetry to reduce log volume by up to 50%
Eliminates unused time series data through aggregation and cardinality optimization to reduce costs by up to 80%
Manage, control, and optimize observability spend with centralized suite of tools
Testing(3 features)
Load testing and performance testing tool for engineering teams with synthetic monitoring capabilities
Easily run cloud-based performance tests to boost release confidence and velocity
Proactively monitor the performance of APIs and web applications from the user's perspective across global locations
Frontend Monitoring(2 features)
Gain real user monitoring insights and clear visibility into end user experience of web applications
Frontend application observability web SDK for real user monitoring insights
Incident Management(2 features)
Detect and respond to incidents faster with automated task management and simplified workflows
Reduce toil in on-call management through simpler, engineer-tailored workflows and interfaces
Infrastructure Monitoring(2 features)
Ensure infrastructure health and performance with pre-built solutions for Kubernetes, cloud, and on-premises environments
Get Kubernetes health, performance, and cost monitoring from cluster to container level
Templates(2 features)
Try out and share prebuilt visualizations through community dashboard templates
100+ pre-built observability solutions for various monitoring scenarios and use cases
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DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 36 features at very easy complexity.