r/grafana is a subreddit with 25k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses grafana, dashboard, monitoring, metrics, and prometheus.
A subreddit dedicated to all things Grafana, the LGTM+ Stack, and Grafana Cloud.
Popular Themes in r/grafana
#1
Advice Requests
: "I built a Grafana dashboard for Kubernetes CO₂ + cost monitoring, looking for feedback"
10 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "Supercheck.io - Built an open source alternative for running Playwright and k6 tests - self-hosted with AI features"
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "We built an open-source CLI for Grafana that's designed for AI agents"
2 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "HELP - Dashboard works fine internally, but "No Data" when shared externally"
1 post
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Accidentally spiked Grafana Cloud metrics to ~350k due to Alloy config — will Grafana do a courtesy adjustment?"
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "The true cost of open-sourcing a Grafana plugin"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/grafana
#1
Grafana
: "I finally got tired of messy topology views in Grafana, so I built my own plugin."
231 posts
#2
Dashboard
: "Golden Grot Awards Finalists 2025 (Best Personal and Professional Dashboards)"
64 posts
#3
Monitoring
: "Monitoring plants with IoT sensors and Grafana Cloud"
40 posts
#4
Metrics
: "Accidentally spiked Grafana Cloud Metrics to ~350k due to Alloy config — will Grafana do a courtesy adjustment?"
35 posts
#5
Prometheus
: "rvidia-exporter - Prometheus metrics exporter for NVIDIA GPUs"
31 posts
#6
Alerting
: "Grafana 11.6 release: new data visualization features, LBAC for metrics data sources, Alerting updates, and more"
25 posts
#7
Observability
: "I built a thing - Observability in a box. based on LGTM"
24 posts
#8
Loki
: "Scaling Grafana Loki for 33TB/day: Facing severe query performance bottlenecks despite aggressive parallelism and Bloom Filters. Need expert advice!"
15 posts
#9
Logs
: "Best Practices for Managing High-Scale Client Logs in Grafana Loki"
15 posts
#10
Logging
: "Grafana 12.2 release: LLM-powered SQL expressions, updates to canvas and table visualizations, simplified reporting, and more"
14 posts
Flair Used in r/grafana
#1
:Grafana: Grafana
: "Running open source grafana for our SOC and honestly the dashboards are great. the team loves it."
7 posts
#2
:Love: Check it out
: "Are you answering questions in r/grafana? You might be a good fit for the Grafana Champions or Emerging Champions program"
4 posts
#3
:Kubernetes: Kubernetes
: "I built a Grafana dashboard for Kubernetes CO₂ + cost monitoring, looking for feedback"
1 post
#4
:Loki: Loki
: "Scaling Grafana Loki for 33TB/day: Facing severe query performance bottlenecks despite aggressive parallelism and Bloom Filters. Need expert advice!"
1 post
#5
:Grafana-Cloud: Grafana Cloud
: "Dashboard tabs"
1 post
#6
:Confused: Miscellaneous
: "r/grafana updates for better experience: flairs"
1 post
#7
:Alloy: Alloy
: "How to move from Logs to Traces?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/grafana
Yearly
+5k members(24.7%)
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Last updated: June 11, 2026