Business Intelligence
The Business Intelligence platform is actively being developed. Public Preview releases are intended solely for testing and evaluation.
Developed in collaboration with the Grafana Community and shaped by real-world production needs, the Business Intelligence platform redefines alerting and analytics within Grafana.
Users expressed a need for streamlined interactions, centralized management, and advanced capabilities like anomaly detection and reporting in self-hosted Grafana environments. Through iterative design and community input, we’ve crafted a modular, intuitive solution that’s both maintainable and scalable.
Architecture
The Business Intelligence platform consists of the following components:
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Business Studio
- Centralized management hub
- Provides a user-friendly interface with a comprehensive system overview
- Requires only one instance to oversee the entire platform
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Business Engine
- Drives performance for a single Grafana instance per engine
- Executes computationally intensive tasks and processes
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Business Alerting
- Initial module for the Business Engine
- Enables query-driven alerts from Grafana panels with customizable thresholds and variables for timely metric notifications
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Business Reporting
- Upcoming module for the Business Engine (in development)
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Future Modules
- Planned features include anomaly detection and additional capabilities
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Grafana Integration
- Compatible with all Grafana variants (OSS, Enterprise, Cloud)—Grafana itself is not bundled
This architecture delivers:
- Unified management of multiple Grafana instances via a single Business Studio
- An accessible, intuitive interface
- Seamless integration with future Business Engine enhancements, such as version control and dashboard synchronization
User Experience
Business Studio supports two distinct user personas:
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Business Users
- Simplified, elegant interfaces tailored for internal teams or clients
- Emphasis on creating alert rules, defining actions, and performing rapid analysis to highlight critical issues
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Technical Users
- Robust tools for in-depth troubleshooting, including access to payloads and Grafana data frames
- Suited for users familiar with clusters and Grafana’s technical underpinnings
Learn More
- User-Friendly Business Studio
- Simplifies Business Engine management for non-technical users, enhancing configuration and monitoring efficiency
- High-Performance Business Engine
- Ensures reliable performance through distributed load balancing and high availability, tightly integrated with Grafana
- Advanced Business Alerts
- Offers customizable, query-based alerts with threshold and variable support for actionable insights
Subscription
Business Intelligence operates on a subscription model. A Community edition is available for small-scale projects, capped at 10 Business Alerts and a single Business Engine cluster.
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