* Package name : grafana
Version : 6.0.1
Upstream Author : contact@grafana.org
* URL : https://grafana.com/
* License : Apache-2
Programming Lang: Golang, Javascript
Description : feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor
Grafana is a feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for
Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.
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Grafana was once packaged in Debian under the good eyes of Dmitry
Smirnov (in CC). It was orphaned then removed from Debian last
September (#909592). I was hoping the upstream package might give us a
good base to start with but a review from Guillem Jover showed that
the upstream package was inadequate (#835210), namely:
would be important to package Grafana in Debian.
It's a very interesting project, from a user's perspective: it
generates beautiful graphs and performs very well. It is, in my
opinion, likely to become a standard in monitoring/trending/graphing
tools out there, along with Prometheus and other similar tools.
The fact that it does nasty stuff with Debian packaging could be
fixed. The too many embeded Javascript dependencies is harder, but
we've crossed that bridge for other packages and I don't quite see why
Grafana should be any different. If anything, those concerns should at
least be taken upstream at some point.
Because of the overlap, I'm not sure if that should be under the
umbrella of the Javascript or Golang teams. Right now I'm using it
as a Docker container, because I didn't trust the upstream package to
do the right thing, and I'd like to get rid of that anomaly.
Thanks!