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
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Grafana

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Outdated versions, missing security patches, no clear ownership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.

merkaio ops

Managed Grafana by merkaio

merkaio takes over the complete setup and operation of your Grafana environment - tailored to IoT workloads and production requirements.

Architecture & DesignCustom architecture for your requirements
Deployment & Data SourcesSecure connection of all relevant data sources
Monitoring & AlertingMonitoring of the platform itself
Updates & PatchesRegular updates without downtime
SLA & SupportDefined availability and response times

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

ChirpStack Managed Hosting

Visualize LoRaWAN data directly from your Managed ChirpStack in Grafana. We configure the data bridge for you.

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ThingsBoard Managed Hosting

ThingsBoard Managed Hosting

Combination of ThingsBoard for device management and Grafana for advanced dashboards and alerting.

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Alerting, 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-HostedSaaS-onlymerkaio
Setup & ConfigurationOwn team requiredQuick, but limitedProfessional, custom
Ongoing operationsEntirely yourselfManaged, little controlManaged & transparent
Updates & SecurityManual, often forgottenAutomatic, no influenceAutomatic & controlled
ScalingComplexLimitedSeamless
Support & SLANo SLAStandard supportDedicated support
Cost modelHidden costsPay-per-userTransparent fixed prices

Transparent. Fair. No hidden costs.

One price for your complete private cloud deployment. No limits, no surprises.

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Isolated private cloud deployment
VPN-secured access
Custom subdomain
Unlimited devices
Unlimited gateways
Unlimited users
Managed updates & backups
SLA-based support

FAQ - Grafana Managed Hosting & IoT Visualization

Frequently asked questions about managed services, data sources, alerting, security and customizing.

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