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# About Grafana
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-Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing
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-rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through
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-a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/),
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-[InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org) and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). But supports other data sources via plugins.
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+Grafana is a leading open source application for visualizing your large scale time series measurement data.
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-It is most commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application monitoring and metric analytics. But Grafana
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-has an open architecture and design that enables it to be used in other domains as well, like home automation,
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-weather and industrial sensors analytics.
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+It provides a powerful and elegant way to create and share dashboards and data from your metrics, either with your team or with the world.
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-## Support
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+Grafana is most commonly used for Internet infrastructure and application monitoring and analytics, but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control.
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-If you have any trouble with Grafana, either the install or some feature you do not understand or you suspect isn't working
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-correctly there are a number of sources where you can get help.
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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, 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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+## Community, Feedback, Help
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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 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](../troubleshooting)
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-- \#grafana IRC channel on freenode
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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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-Do not hesitate to open a new issue with a question, bug report or an idea for improvement.
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-User feedback and involvement is paramount to making a product better so please take the time and create an issue.
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+## Commercial Support
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-## Paid support
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-If you wish to get paid support please [contact us](mailto:contact@grafana.org).
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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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-Grafana is licensed under Apache 2.0. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.mdhttps://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
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-for full license text.
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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.mdhttps://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for the full license terms.
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