The most successful open-source fork, worth $6B
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Grafana started as a Christmas-break fork of Kibana by a Swedish developer at eBay, created because Elastic refused to support metrics visualization beyond Elasticsearch. While Kibana stayed tightly coupled to Elasticsearch, Grafana adopted a 'Big Tent' philosophy supporting all data sources and built a plugin ecosystem.
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Kibana wants to work only with ElasticsearchTwo paths diverged: Kibana vs. GrafanaMost of the money is in the observability.Grafana competing with ElasticBest tool for the jobSort: