Not sure what's an alternative for Grafana in the open source world in terms of building dashboards for o11y? I'm not aware of one and Grafana is used very extensively in my company...
Besides that, if you're feeling masochistic you could use Prometheus' console templates or VictoriaMetrics' built-in dashboards.
Though these are all obviously nowhere near as feature rich and capable as Grafana and would only be able to display metrics for the single Prom/VM node they're running on. Might enough for some users.
Disclaimer: I am affiliated with them.
Grafana dashboards itself (paired with VictoriaMetrics and occasionally Clickhouse) is one of the most pleasant web apps IMO. Especially when you don’t try to push the constraints of its display model, which are sometimes annoying but understandable.
We're using a combination of Zabbix (alerting) and local Grafana/Prometheus/Loki (observability) at this point, but I've been worried about when Grafana will rug-pull for a while now. Hopefully enough people using their cloud offering sates their appetite and they leave the people running locally alone.
I'm out of that game now though so don't have the challenge.
we're opentelemetry-native and apart from many out of box charts for APM, infra monitoring, and logs, you can also build customized dashboards with lots of visualization option.
p.s - i am one of the maintainers
The kicker for me recently was hearing someone say "ally"
Or without numbers,
authC/authN, authZ...
The problem is that authorization also has an "n" in the word.
Enter authC.
It seems unlikely to me that stenography would use this style because they have better ways of abbreviating long agglutinative words.
ironically that's not very accessible...