page_title: About Grafana
page_description: Introduction to Grafana.
page_keywords: grafana, introduction, documentation, about

# About

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. Its focused on providing
rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs. It currently
has rich support for for [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.org)
and [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net). But supports other data sources via plugins.

## License

Grafana is licensed under Apache 2.0. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.mdhttps://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
for full license text.