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 [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) is an open source visualization and analytics tool that allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics. This guide will show you how to install Grafana and configure it to visualize the Radius control plane metrics from Prometheus.
 
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 ## Example dashboards
 
 There are two example dashboards that you can import into Grafana to quickly get started visualizing your metrics and then customize them to meet your needs.
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 [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) collects and stores metrics as time series data. This guide will show you how to collect Radius control plane metrics to then be visualized and queried.
 
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 ## Install Prometheus on Kubernetes
 
 1. Make sure you have the following pre-requisites: