Grafana
Official Preset12.4Category: Monitoring, Observability & Status Pages
Overview
Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture. Combined with Prometheus, InfluxDB, or Loki, Grafana gives you an enterprise-grade monitoring hub on your VPS.
Primary Use Cases
Infrastructure and server resource monitoring (CPU, RAM, Disk, Network)
Application performance tracking, response times, and error rates
Visualizing database metrics from PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis
Alerting via Discord, Slack, Telegram, or email when thresholds spike
Key Features
- World-class interactive charting, graphs, gauges, and heatmaps
- Pluggable data source architecture (Prometheus, InfluxDB, SQL, Elasticsearch)
- Robust alerting engine with multi-channel notification policies
- Extensive community library of pre-built dashboards
- Role-based user permissions and organization management
Container Specification
grafana/grafana:12.4
12.4
Automated Let's Encrypt (Caddy / Traefik)
Managed host volume mounts
How to Deploy Grafana with tug.sh
Connect your Linux server
Run the 1-line tug.sh agent install command on any Ubuntu, Debian, or Rocky Linux VPS.
Select Grafana from the Marketplace
Pick your domain name, configure custom environment variables if needed, and choose your persistent storage folder.
Click Deploy & Go Live
tug.sh pulls the container, sets up HTTPS certificates, configures the reverse proxy, and boots the service in under 60 seconds.
Deploy on Your Server
Experience effortless self-hosting. Deploy Grafana on Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or your home lab with zero maintenance headaches.
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