Business Intelligence
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.
We’d Love to Hear From You!​
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