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Perses

Open dashboard tool and visualization standard for metrics

Monitoring & Status ★ 2.3k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Perses is a CNCF project providing an open specification and tool for observability dashboards. It offers a GitOps-friendly, dashboard-as-code approach for visualizing Prometheus and other metrics.

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Key features

  • Dashboard-as-code
  • Open dashboard specification
  • GitOps-friendly workflow
  • Prometheus data source

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Version-controlled dashboards
  • Truly open governance

Trade-offs

  • Younger than Grafana
  • Fewer panel types

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