--- title: Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters description: Grafana is a powerful visualization tool that fills a gap in the monitoring landscape by providing visualizations for distributed systems. It was created by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/grafana-shining-a-light-into-kubernetes-clusters-9bbxpuarl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters | daily.dev og:description: Grafana is a powerful visualization tool that fills a gap in the monitoring landscape by providing visualizations for distributed systems. 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