Grafana
Grafana Labs builds the open and composable observability stack used by millions of engineers to visualize, query, alert on, and explore their metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. The flagship Grafana OSS dashboarding platform is paired with Grafana Loki (logs), Grafana Mimir (Prometheus-compatible metrics), Grafana Tempo (distributed traces), and Grafana Pyroscope (continuous profiling) — all under the LGTM stack. Grafana Cloud delivers the entire portfolio as a managed SaaS with a generous free tier, while Grafana Enterprise extends self-managed deployments with premium plugins, reporting, RBAC, LBAC, and caching. The ecosystem extends to Grafana k6 (load testing), Grafana Alloy (OpenTelemetry-native collector), Grafana Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation), Grafana Faro (frontend observability), Grafana OnCall (incident response), and Synthetic Monitoring. A canonical OpenAPI specification at public/api-merged.json powers the official Go client, the Terraform provider, the Grafana Operator, and a deep dashboards-as-code toolchain (Foundation SDK, Grafonnet, Grizzly, Scenes).
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Grafana the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 20 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Grafana scores 53.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Grafana
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Grafana. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 20
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Grafana HTTP API
The full Grafana HTTP API surface for self-managed Grafana and Grafana Enterprise. Covers dashboards, folders, data sources, organizations, users, teams, service accounts, API k...
Grafana Dashboard API
Create, read, update, delete, search, version, and permission dashboards. Exposes the Kubernetes-style `/apis/dashboard.grafana.app/v1/namespaces/:namespace/dashboards` resource...
Grafana Folder and Search API
Manage Grafana folders, perform cross-folder dashboard search, and administer folder-level permissions. Folders are the primary organizational unit for grouping dashboards and a...
Grafana Data Source API
Programmatically register and manage Grafana data sources (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope, Postgres, MySQL, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google...
Grafana Alerting Provisioning API
Provision Grafana Alerting resources programmatically — alert rules, contact points, mute timings, notification policies, and notification templates. Supports headers for file-p...
Grafana Annotations API
Create, read, update, and delete annotations on Grafana dashboards. Annotations mark events (deploys, incidents, releases) on time-series panels and can be scoped to a dashboard...
Grafana Organization and Users API
Manage Grafana organizations, users, teams, team membership, external team sync, and user or org-scoped preferences (default home dashboard, theme, timezone, week start).
Grafana Access Control (RBAC) API
Manage fine-grained role-based access control assignments, custom roles, permission grants against folders/dashboards/data sources, service accounts, service account tokens, and...
Grafana Admin API
Server-wide administrative endpoints including global users, settings, server stats, encryption keys, pause-all-alerts, plus Grafana Enterprise extensions for licensing, schedul...
Grafana Library Elements API
Manage reusable library panels and library variables. Library elements let dashboard authors define a panel or variable once and reference it across many dashboards, with update...
Grafana Correlations API
Define correlations between data sources to enable in-place pivoting (e.g. trace ID in Tempo to logs in Loki) inside Explore and dashboards. Powers the "click a value, jump to r...
Grafana Snapshot, Short URL, and Query History API
Capture and share dashboard snapshots (rendered point-in-time copies including data), generate short URLs for long Explore queries and dashboard links, and read or write a user'...
Grafana Cloud API
Manage Grafana Cloud stacks (instances), plugins, data sources, regions, access policies, and tokens at `https://grafana.com/api`. Authenticated with Cloud Access Policy bearer ...
Grafana Loki HTTP API
Query and push logs to Grafana Loki. Endpoints include `/loki/api/v1/push` (log ingestion), `/loki/api/v1/query` and `/query_range` (LogQL), `/loki/api/v1/labels`, `/loki/api/v1...
Grafana Mimir HTTP API
Horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long-term Prometheus-compatible metrics storage. Exposes Prometheus remote-write at `/api/v1/push`, the full Prometheus query API (`/api/v1/...
Grafana Tempo HTTP API
High-volume, minimal-dependency distributed tracing backend. Supports OTLP ingestion, trace lookup by ID (`/api/traces/{traceID}`), TraceQL search (`/api/search`), tag and value...
Grafana Pyroscope HTTP API
Continuous profiling backend. Ingest pprof and Pyroscope-format CPU, memory, and lock profiles, query flame graphs and merge profiles, and run profile-based comparisons. Pyrosco...
Grafana k6 Cloud API
Programmatically trigger, list, and manage cloud-hosted k6 load tests, projects, organizations, test runs, thresholds, and results. Pairs with the open-source `k6` CLI for JavaS...
Grafana OnCall API
Programmatic access to OnCall alert groups, integrations, escalation chains, schedules, on-call shifts, routes, slack channels, webhooks, and users. Powers on-call rotation mana...
Grafana Synthetic Monitoring API
Create and manage synthetic probes (HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP/ping, traceroute, multi-step scripted browser, gRPC) executed from Grafana Labs' global probe network plus option...
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Grafana Com Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Grafana Com Finops
FINOPSFeatures 39
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Grafana — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 14
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 23
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 3
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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