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page_title: About Grafana
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page_description: Introduction to Grafana.
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page_keywords: grafana, introduction, documentation, about
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# About Grafana
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Grafana is a leading open source application for visualizing large-scale measurement data.
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It provides a powerful and elegant way to create, share, and explore data and dashboards from your disparate metric databases, either with your team or the world.
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Grafana is most commonly used for Internet infrastructure and application analytics, but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control.
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Grafana features pluggable panels and data sources allowing easy extensibility. There is currently rich support for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org) and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). There is also experimental support for [KairosDB](https://github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb), [Prometheus](http://prometheus.io/), and SQL is on the roadmap. Grafana has a variety of panels, including a fully featured graph panel with rich visualization options.
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Version 2.0 was released in April 2015: Grafana now ships with its own backend server that brings [many changes and features](../guides/whats-new-in-v2/).
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Version 2.1 was released in July 2015 and added [even more features and enhancements](../guides/whats-new-in-v2-1/).
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## Community Resources, Feedback, and Support
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Thousands of organizations large and small rely on Grafana, and we have a vibrant and active community that constantly inspires us.
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Please don't hesitate to [open a new issue on Github](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues) with your suggestions, ideas, and bug reports.
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Most of the new features and improvements that go into Grafana come from our users. We greatly value your feedback and suggestions; we consider them paramount to making the product better!
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If you have any trouble with Grafana, whether you can't get it set up or you just want clarification on a feature, there are a number of ways to get help:
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- [Troubleshooting guide](/installation/troubleshooting/)
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- \#grafana IRC channel on the freenode network (chat.freenode.net)
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- Search closed and open [issues on GitHub](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues)
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- [Mailing list](https://groups.io/org/groupsio/grafana)
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## Commercial Support
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[raintank](http://www.raintank.io), the company behind Grafana, will be launching a SaaS Grafana-based platform later this year that will also include commercial support for all your existing Grafana installations. Please sign up for [early access at raintank](http://www.raintank.io) for more information.
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## License
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By utilizing this software, you agree to the terms of the included license. Grafana is licensed under the Apache 2.0 agreement. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for the full license terms.
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