Overview

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Check the documentation website's home page to get another overview of Perses with visuals.

Perses is first and foremost a dashboard tool that you can use to display a variety of observability data. It currently supports Prometheus metrics, Tempo traces, Loki for logs, Pyroscope for profiling, bringing together all four observability pillars in one place. As the project continues to evolve, it will expand support for additional tools to give users even more flexibility and insight.

Perses is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.

Beyond its core usage, Perses aims to achieve several broader goals:

• Open specification for dashboards. Perses is also an initiative to define a standardized dashboard specification, fostering interoperability across observability tools.
• Integrability. Perses provides various npm packages that allow developers to embed panels and dashboards into their own UIs, benefiting from the work done in Perses. For instance, these packages could be used in the future to enhance data visualization in the Prometheus UI.
• Extensibility. Perses supports multiple kinds of plugins, enabling users to extend the tool’s native capabilities to suit specific needs.
• GitOps-friendly. SDKs, CI/CD libraries, static validation, native CLI.. Perses provides everything you need for a great Dashboard-as-Code experience.
• Kubernetes-native mode. Dashboard definitions will be deployable into and readable from individual application namespaces using Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

Learn more about these topics throughout the rest of the available documentation.