Grafana
Observability dashboards for Wi-Fi, servers, and room sensors
open-core planned guide featuredOverview
Grafana visualizes metrics from Prometheus and other sources. Technical operators monitor uptime, gateway health, and environmental sensors that affect member experience.
At a glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Categories | monitoring-observability, analytics-bi |
| Deployment | self-hosted, managed-saas |
| License class | open-core (AGPL-3.0-only) |
| Cost model | open-core-paid-features |
| Implementation difficulty | moderate |
| Maintenance burden | medium |
| Maturity | stable |
| Verification | partially-verified (2026-07-17) |
Cost reality
OSS self-host free; cloud/enterprise paid.
Pricing and free-tier limits change frequently; re-check official pricing before budget decisions.
Tasks reduced or augmented
Software does not replace community or ops staff. It may reduce or augment:
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Alerting on disk/CPU before outages
Human oversight still needed
- Alert fatigue management
- Access to infrastructure metrics
Data held
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metrics
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dashboards
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alert rules
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Personal data: no / limited
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Payment data: no / not primary
Risks
| Area | Notes |
|---|---|
| Vendor lock-in | Evaluate export formats and API completeness before deep customization. |
| Security | Apply updates promptly; restrict admin access; enable TLS. |
| Compliance | Operator remains responsible for privacy and local regulatory obligations. |
| Licensing | AGPL core; Grafana Cloud and enterprise features commercial. |
| Operational | Plan backups, monitoring, and a restore drill before production use. |
Coworking fit
Roles: technical-operator, facilities, operations-manager
Workflows: incident-response, facility-maintenance, reporting-kpis
Problems: improve-wifi-reliability, disaster-recovery, measure-utilization
Smallest useful experiment
Install Grafana + Prometheus node exporter on the primary VPS and create an uptime/resources dashboard.
Typical time to first value: 1–3 days
Links
Implementation guide
A routable implementation guide is not currently published.
Verification
- Status:
partially-verified - Last reviewed:
2026-07-17 - Sources:
Seed entry compiled from official project sites and repositories. Re-verify pricing, license text, and feature claims before production decisions. Star counts and free-tier numeric limits intentionally omitted unless verified at review time.