Grafana
Unify IT and security monitoring with enterprise-grade Grafana plugins and expert-led services
Grafana Services
Crest Data is a Grafana Marketplace partner
delivering commercial-grade Grafana plugins and end-to-end Grafana services that help enterprises maximize the value of their observability investment. With over 10 plugins live at the Marketplace launch, spanning storage, network, SaaS, and security platforms, and 5000+ integrations delivered across observability and security ecosystems, we help organizations bring every layer of their stack into a single pane of glass.
From building backend data source plugins in collaboration with Grafana Labs to designing custom dashboards, migrating monitoring workloads, and providing 24×7 managed support, our teams combine native query-in-place engineering, automation, and deep domain expertise to drive measurable business impact. Whether you are consolidating tools, accelerating security approvals, or scaling visibility across hybrid environments, we ensure resilient and cost-efficient Grafana deployments tailored to enterprise needs.
Why Crest Data?
Over 10 commercial plugins live at the Grafana Marketplace launch, built, maintained, and enhanced in collaboration with Grafana Labs.
One partner for storage, network, SaaS, and security visibility: Akamai, Dell PowerScale, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Meraki, NetApp ONTAP, Proofpoint, Tableau, Zoom, and Zscaler (ZIA and ZPA).
Native REST API plugins with no agents, exporters, or ETL middleware, reducing infrastructure cost and accelerating security approvals.
Go from installation to live visualization in under 5 minutes with pre-built dashboards that surface throughput, health, and performance metrics out of the box.
5000+ integrations delivered across observability and security ecosystems, backed by dedicated QA, certification, and release processes.
Every plugin is proactively maintained for the latest hardware and software versions, with built-in resilience such as automatic retry with exponential backoff.
Our Grafana Offerings
Plugin Development
Crest Data develops, and maintains commercial Grafana plugins across storage, network, SaaS, and security platforms. Our backend data source plugins query systems directly through native REST APIs, eliminating agents, exporters, and extra collection layers. Each plugin ships with pre-built dashboards, flexible query editors, and interval-based querying aligned to each platform's API constraints. From development and QA validation to Marketplace certification and ongoing releases, we manage the full plugin lifecycle in close collaboration with Grafana Labs engineering, ensuring continuous compatibility with evolving stacks.
Implementations
We provide end-to-end Grafana implementation services, helping enterprises rapidly deploy and operationalize the platform to maximize observability and system reliability. Our experts implement Application Observability (APM), infrastructure monitoring, and log management to build scalable architectures tailored to your enterprise needs. From initial Grafana Alloy deployment and custom dashboard development to advanced alerting strategies and observability-as-code, we build highly scalable, performance-optimized Grafana environments. We accelerate your adoption journey using industry-proven best practices.
Customizations
Crest Data can build custom Grafana dashboards and alert rules that turn raw telemetry into operational clarity and proactive actions for IT, DevOps, and security teams. Our experts design panels for performance monitoring, capacity forecasting, security auditing, and business KPIs, all composable with any Grafana panel type or an alert rule. Whether extending our pre-built plugin dashboards or creating purpose-built views across multiple data sources, we apply proven visualization patterns that reduce alert noise, accelerate root-cause analysis, and give every team, from storage administrators to SOC analysts, the context they need at a glance.
Migrations to Grafana
We help enterprises consolidate fragmented monitoring tools into Grafana with structured, low-risk migration engagements. Every migration follows a phased, rigorous methodology: assessment, project planning, Grafana set up, data routing, use case migration, testing, and cutover support. Our team assesses existing dashboards, alerts, and data pipelines, then rebuilds them in Grafana with validated data parity and optimized query design. By replacing standalone monitoring silos with query-in-place plugins, alert rules and unified dashboards, organizations reduce tooling spend, simplify security reviews, and shorten incident response. From phased rollouts to final cutover, we accelerate time-to-value while ensuring teams adopt scalable, maintainable Grafana environments from day one.
Managed Services & Support
We deliver ongoing Grafana managed services to ensure platform stability, plugin health, and continuous value realization. Our services include plugin configuration, dashboard optimization, alert tuning, and proactive compatibility management as underlying platforms evolve. With 24x7 support and continuous maintenance leveraging the expertise we’ve developed while building plugins, our team is able to resolve issues quickly, prevent monitoring gaps, and keep visibility intact through every version change. Our managed services approach ensures operational resilience while allowing internal teams to focus on innovation and growth.
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Simplify migrations, integrate diverse data sources, and build Grafana dashboards for enterprise-scale monitoring.
Grafana Plugins
Unlock unified visibility with Crest Data's commercial plugins on the Grafana Marketplace
NetApp ONTAP
Cluster, volume, LUN, disk, and network telemetry with six pre-built dashboards for storage performance and health.
Fortinet FortiGate
Firewall traffic visibility to detect, analyze, and respond to intrusion attempts, policy violations, and suspicious activity.
Zscaler ZIA
Secure web gateway traffic and policy insights for instantaneous visibility into cloud security events.
Zscaler ZPA
Zero trust private access monitoring for application connectivity, user activity, and access audits.
Akamai
CDN and edge delivery performance metrics to monitor availability, traffic, and digital experience.
Dell PowerScale
Scale-out NAS visibility covering cluster health, capacity, and performance across the storage estate.
Cisco Meraki
Network and wireless infrastructure monitoring for device health, connectivity, and performance.
Proofpoint
Email security event visibility for threat detection, audit readiness, and faster investigation.
Tableau
BI platform monitoring for usage, performance, and operational health of analytics environments.
Zoom
Meeting quality and usage analytics to keep collaboration experiences reliable at scale.
How to Purchase Our Plugins
Crest Data plugins are commercial offerings on the Grafana Plugin Marketplace. To license a plugin, set up an evaluation, sign into Grafana Cloud, then fill out the contact form or contact grafana.plugins@crestdata.ai.
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Grafana Solutions FAQs
Yes. Crest Data is a Grafana Marketplace partner that builds and maintains commercial-grade Grafana plugins in collaboration with Grafana Labs engineering. With over 10 plugins live at the Marketplace launch, the same team handles development, QA, certification, and ongoing releases, keeping every plugin compatible as your stack evolves.
Crest Data delivers four core Grafana services: commercial plugin development, custom dashboard and alert rule development, migrations from legacy monitoring tools, and 24x7 managed services and support. Together they help enterprises unify IT and security monitoring into a single pane of glass while reducing tooling cost and accelerating time to value.
Query-in-place plugins pull data directly from source systems through native REST APIs, so there are no agents, exporters, or ETL middleware to deploy. For enterprises, this lowers infrastructure cost, simplifies security approvals, and surfaces live throughput, health, and performance metrics through pre-built dashboards within minutes of installation.
Crest Data runs structured, low-risk migrations that assess your current dashboards, alerts, and data pipelines, then rebuild them in Grafana with validated data parity. Phased rollouts and query-in-place plugins let you consolidate fragmented tools, cut licensing spend, and shorten incident response without disrupting live monitoring.
Yes. Crest Data offers 24x7 managed services covering onboarding new data sources, plugin configuration, dashboard optimization, alert tuning, and proactive compatibility management. Issues get resolved quickly on account of our deep Grafana expertise and visibility stays intact through every hardware and software version change.
Traditional monitoring often requires extra agents, exporters, or middleware to collect data. Crest Data's query-in-place architecture uses native REST APIs to retrieve data directly from enterprise platforms, eliminating those components, reducing operational overhead, and simplifying security approvals. Crest Data’s AI-driven migration engine further cut cost by automating the rebuild of dashboards and alerts with validated data parity, lowering the overall cost of managing Grafana.
Yes, all Crest Data plugins in the Grafana Marketplace are supported and include assistance with debugging and troubleshooting, fixing bugs and updating documentation. Contact grafana.plugins@crestdata.ai for more information.
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