Grafana HostingManaged Operations
Build and operate production-ready Grafana environments - for IoT dashboards, monitoring and alerting in continuous operation.
- Grafana setup, operations & responsibility
- IoT dashboards & alerting for production systems
- Integration with ChirpStack, Prometheus & IoT data sources
- SLA-backed support & monitoring
What is Grafana?
Grafana is an open-source platform for visualization, monitoring and alerting. It's used to display time-series and metric data from various sources in dashboards and make operational states transparent.
Dashboards & Visualization
Monitoring & Alerting
Multi-Data-Sources
As an open-source solution, Grafana offers full flexibility and no vendor lock-ins - but reliable operation in production environments requires expertise.
Why operating Grafana in production is challenging
Grafana is quick to set up - but hard to operate reliably.
Unclear architecture
Single vs. multi-tenant, scaling and dashboard organization
Performance issues
Slow dashboards with growing data volumes and complex queries
Backup & Recovery
Missing concepts for dashboard backups and configuration security
Unreliable alerting
Misconfigured notifications and unclear escalation paths
Updates & responsibility
Outdated versions, missing security patches, no clear ownership
Grafana is quick to install - but reliable operation with proper alerting, performance and backups requires dedicated expertise.
Managed Grafana by merkaio
merkaio takes over the complete setup and operation of your Grafana environment - tailored to IoT workloads and production requirements.
Build & Operate: We set up your Grafana environment and operate it reliably long-term.
Grafana for IoT dashboards & alerting
In IoT projects, Grafana is often the central interface for operational decisions. merkaio uses Grafana to consistently display sensor data, platform metrics and system states.
ChirpStack
LoRaWAN data directly from your network
Prometheus
Metrics and system monitoring
InfluxDB
Time-series database for sensor data
Custom APIs
Custom data pipelines and integrations
Reference architecture & data flow
At merkaio, Grafana is always part of a holistic IoT infrastructure - not an isolated tool.
IoT Devices & Gateways
Sensors and gateways in the field
ChirpStack Network Server
LoRaWAN protocol and device management
Data Pipeline
MQTT, metrics exporter and transformer
Time-Series Backend
Prometheus, InfluxDB or PostgreSQL
Grafana Dashboards
Visualization, alerting and reporting
At merkaio, Grafana is always part of a holistic IoT infrastructure - not an isolated tool.
Integrated with the merkaio stack
Grafana works seamlessly with other components of the merkaio stack.
ChirpStack Managed Hosting
Visualize LoRaWAN data directly from your Managed ChirpStack in Grafana. We configure the data bridge for you.
View ChirpStack HostingThingsBoard Managed Hosting
Combination of ThingsBoard for device management and Grafana for advanced dashboards and alerting.
View ThingsBoard HostingAlerting, reliability & SLAs
At merkaio, Grafana is operated as an operational component - not just as a dashboard.
- End-to-end encryption (TLS/SSL)
- Network isolation & secure data sources
- Automatic backups of dashboards & configuration
- 24/7 monitoring & anomaly detection
- 99.9% availability SLA
SLA-backed operations
Every Grafana hosting comes with defined service levels. Alerting for sensor values and system states, clear escalation paths and regular validation.
We operate Grafana as an operational component - not just as a visualization tool.
Who is Grafana Managed Hosting for?
Our Grafana hosting is designed for organizations that need professional monitoring and dashboarding - without operations overhead.
IoT Platforms
Production operation with real-time dashboards and alerting
Teams without monitoring expertise
Professional dashboards without your own DevOps team
Global Deployments
Distributed systems with centralized monitoring
Open Source Focus
No vendor lock-ins, full transparency
Grafana: Self-Hosted vs. SaaS vs. merkaio
Compare the options for your Grafana setup.
| Self-Hosted | SaaS-only | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup & Configuration | Own team required | Quick, but limited | Professional, custom |
| Ongoing operations | Entirely yourself | Managed, little control | Managed & transparent |
| Updates & Security | Manual, often forgotten | Automatic, no influence | Automatic & controlled |
| Scaling | Complex | Limited | Seamless |
| Support & SLA | No SLA | Standard support | Dedicated support |
| Cost model | Hidden costs | Pay-per-user | Transparent fixed prices |
Transparent. Fair. No hidden costs.
One price for your complete private cloud deployment. No limits, no surprises.
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FAQ - Grafana Managed Hosting & IoT Visualization
Frequently asked questions about managed services, data sources, alerting, security and customizing.
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