Grafana Linux Jobs
Grafana is the leading open-source observability and data visualisation platform, used by engineering teams worldwide to build dashboards over Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and dozens of other data sources running on Linux infrastructure. Grafana engineers design dashboards, manage alerting, and operate the Grafana stack as a shared platform service for engineering organisations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Grafana supports over 150 data source plugins including Prometheus, Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CloudWatch, Datadog, and many others. Most Linux observability stacks use Grafana as the unified visualisation layer over multiple backends.
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LGTM refers to Loki (logs), Grafana (visualisation), Tempo (traces), and Mimir or Prometheus (metrics). It is a fully open-source observability stack built and maintained by Grafana Labs, increasingly adopted as an alternative to proprietary platforms like Datadog or New Relic.
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Grafana roles typically require Prometheus experience, PromQL proficiency, and Kubernetes knowledge. Dashboard-as-code using Grafonnet or Terraform with the Grafana provider is expected in platform engineering roles. Experience with Loki for log aggregation and alerting configuration is common in SRE and observability engineer positions.
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Grafana Cloud is a managed SaaS offering of the Grafana stack including hosted Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo. Self-hosted Grafana is the open-source version run on Linux servers or Kubernetes. Most job postings do not distinguish between the two, as the core dashboarding and query skills transfer directly.