time series

grafana

• very good dashboard editing
• no own storage or data collection, may use graphite or prometheus
• no alarm or event tracking

graphite

• no dashboard editing
• normal storage
• no own data collection, push-based
• event tracking, no alarm

prometheus

• powerful but complicated console templates
• storage w/ powerful query language
• good data collection, pull-based
• alarm, no direct event tracking

openshift

grafana on top of prometheus.