Using Grafana
Grafana is the web interface for all your observability data. You use it to explore your logs, metrics and traces, to build dashboards and to configure alerts.
Accessing Grafana
Go to grafana.platon.sikt.no. You are automatically logged in with Entra ID.
Organizations
Grafana uses organizations to separate teams and their data. Each team or product area gets its own organization, with dedicated data sources (Loki, Mimir and Tempo), custom dashboards and team-specific settings.
All teams are members of their own Grafana organization and of the shared "Sikt" organization, which has pre-built dashboards for pod CPU and memory across teams. See Metrics — What you get for free on Platon PaaS for details.
Switching organizations
If you belong to multiple organizations:
- Click your profile icon (top right)
- Select Switch organization
- Choose the organization you want to view
Data sources
Your organization comes pre-configured with data sources for:
| Data source | Signal | Query language |
|---|---|---|
| Loki | Logs | LogQL |
| Mimir | Metrics | PromQL |
| Tempo | Traces | TraceQL |
If your team runs on PaaS, you also get access to Kubernetes metrics that show CPU, memory and network usage for each container.
Next steps
- Exploring data - Learn to use the Explore view
- Dashboards - Create and use dashboards