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What role does Grafana play relative to Prometheus?

Grafana is purely a visualization and dashboarding layer — it queries Prometheus (or other data sources) and renders the data, but stores no metrics itself. Prometheus is the time-series database and alerting engine; Grafana is the window into it.

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