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influxdata/chronograf
Open source monitoring and visualization UI for the TICK stack
Chronograf is the UI layer of InfluxData's TICK stack — it sits in front of InfluxDB and Kapacitor to give you dashboards, alert management, and a query editor. It's for teams already running InfluxDB 1.x who want a self-hosted visualization layer without reaching for Grafana.
The canned dashboard library is genuinely useful — 30+ pre-built layouts for common Telegraf inputs (Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL) that actually work out of the box. The Kapacitor alert UI is the strongest part: you can visually preview alert thresholds against live data before saving, which most alert builders don't bother with. The Go backend is single-binary with BoltDB as the default state store, so there's no external dependency to stand up for a basic install. Support for both InfluxQL and Flux queries in the same UI is practical for shops mid-migration between the two query languages.
This is firmly a 1.x InfluxDB tool — InfluxDB 2.x and 3.x have their own UI, and InfluxData has made clear Chronograf is not the path forward. The repo has been in quiet maintenance mode for years; the star count is low for its age and there's no meaningful feature development visible. The React/Redux frontend is vintage 2018-era architecture — pre-hooks, heavy class components — which makes contributing painful. The upgrade path is unusually fragile: you can't skip from 1.3.x straight to 1.8+, you have to step through intermediate versions, which is the kind of thing that bites you during an incident.