Add ADR053: Use Grafana - #264
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Forms has no central data visualisation tool. Splunk and CloudWatch dashboards are limited to their own data, and Grafana is already used by other GOV.UK teams. Records the decision to use Grafana and outlines the hosting options without deciding between them.
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| This decision does not cover how we implement Grafana. However, there are 2 options for reference: | ||
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| - Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG) is a fully managed solution. It is currently limited to Grafana version 12, while the latest release is version 13. Sign-in is only available through SAML or IAM Identity Center. EE have not set up Entra or Identity Center yet, so we cannot use AMG today. It is priced per user and would cost roughly $1,000 a year for the production environment (for example, 3 editors and 10 viewers). | ||
| - Self-hosting open source Grafana on ECS would need an ECS Fargate task, an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an Aurora PostgreSQL database for Grafana's own state. We can run the latest version of Grafana and use GitHub sign-in for now, as GOV.UK and GOV.UK Notify do. GOV.UK Pay also self-hosts. It would cost roughly $1,000 a year for the production environment. |
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I understood from our the tech weekly catch up that self-hosting Grafana was not a good option for us at all (although we didn't go into the details of it). Has this changed?
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Adds ADR053 for using Grafana as our tool for dashboards and data visualisation.