I use Grafana religiously every day, rely on it for metrics, long-term trends and alerting. I also use Telegraf with InfluxDB, but thanks to Grafana I've never

I use Grafana religiously every day, rely on it for metrics, long-term trends and alerting. I also use Telegraf with InfluxDB, but thanks to Grafana I've never had to write a single InfluxDB statement. Also: It's not just higher temporal resolution, it's having an actual time-series database vs a metrics database. With InfluxDB (and all other event-based databases) I can go in after the fact and just plot the CPU load for one specific host, or a group of hosts, or plot the HTTP requests that took longer than 200ms, hit a specific endpoint and finished with a specific HTTP status code. If you don't keep the raw measurements you always have to make decisions about which groups you aggregate down to ahead of time. Just something to keep in mind.