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# Welcome to the Grafana Documentation

Grafana is an open source metric analytics & visualization platform. It is most commonly used for visualizing time series data for infrastructure and application analytics but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control.

<h2>Installing Grafana</h2>
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    <a href="{{< relref "installation/debian.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--install">
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        <h5>Installing on Linux</h5>
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    <a href="{{< relref "installation/mac.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--install">
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        <h5>Installing on Mac OS X</h5>
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      <a href="{{< relref "installation/windows.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--install">
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        <h5>Installing on Windows</h5>
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    <a href="https://grafana.com/cloud/grafana" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--install">
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        <h5>Grafana Cloud</h5>
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    <a href="https://grafana.com/grafana/download" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--install">
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        <h5>Nightly Builds</h5>
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    <div class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--install">
        <h5>For other platforms Read the <a href="{{< relref "project/building_from_source.md" >}}">build from source</a>
        instructions for more information.</h5>
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<h2>Guides</h2>

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    <a href="https://grafana.com/grafana" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide">
        <h4>What is Grafana?</h4>
        <p>Grafana feature highlights.</p>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "installation/configuration.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide">
        <h4>Configure Grafana</h4>
        <p>Article on all the Grafana configuration and setup options.</p>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "guides/getting_started.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide">
        <h4>Getting Started</h4>
        <p>A guide that walks you through the basics of using Grafana</p>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "administration/provisioning.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide">
        <h4>Provisioning</h4>
        <p>A guide to help you automate your Grafana setup & configuration.</p>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "guides/whats-new-in-v5.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide">
        <h4>What's new in v5.0</h4>
        <p>Article on all the new cool features and enhancements in v5.0</p>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "tutorials/screencasts.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide">
        <h4>Screencasts</h4>
        <p>Video tutorials & guides</p>
    </a>
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<h2>Data Source Guides</h2>
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    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/graphite.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
      <img src="/img/docs/logos/icon_graphite.svg" >
      <h5>Graphite</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/elasticsearch.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
      <img src="/img/docs/logos/icon_elasticsearch.svg" >
      <h5>Elasticsearch</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/influxdb.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
      <img src="/img/docs/logos/icon_influxdb.svg" >
      <h5>InfluxDB</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/prometheus.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
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      <h5>Prometheus</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/opentsdb.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
      <img src="/img/docs/logos/icon_opentsdb.png" >
      <h5>OpenTSDB</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/mysql.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
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      <h5>MySQL</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/postgres.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
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      <h5>Postgres</h5>
    </a>
    <a href="{{< relref "features/datasources/cloudwatch.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--ds">
      <img src="/img/docs/logos/icon_cloudwatch.svg">
      <h5>Cloudwatch</h5>
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