> But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they. That's very interesting. Where I work, looking at these graphs is part o

> But no body actually stands and looks at a graph as their day-job, nor should they. That's very interesting. Where I work, looking at these graphs is part of our day to day duties: we need to know how our systems are doing, and alerting conditions have not yet been defined to cover every possible thing that could go wrong. Typically, the graphs help us point out conditions we need to watch for, which are often a combination of multiple things happening at the same time which necessitate human action to resolve. Graphs also help us on the business side because we can see what happens with the utilization of our service after various marketing efforts, launches, promotions, etc. and while there are BI tools to do this, they often suck in many ways compared to Grafana, so it's usually a better bet to just stick in a place where the data can be viewed idiomatically. Last but not least, without the ability to look at graphs, how do you know all of your monitoring is working and configured well? It's not enough to just have blind faith in the system, you need to check ever so often to make sure things are flowing well. It's not about it being a fancy star trek dash, but damn if that doesn't impress management anyway.