Grafana — system requirements

Open-source platform for querying, visualizing, and alerting on metrics, logs, and traces. · website · repository

Minimum RAM

512 MB

“Minimum recommended memory: 512 MB”

Scope: General installation, all supported platforms (listed under "minimum system resources") · official source · retrieved 2026-07-24

Minimum CPU cores

1 core

“Minimum recommended CPU: 1 core”

Scope: General installation, all supported platforms (listed under "minimum system resources") · official source · retrieved 2026-07-24

No official figure published for: recommended RAM, recommended CPU cores

The requirements page publishes only tier-based sizing tables (Small/Medium/Large), no single general recommended figure.

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External services

Image: grafana/grafana · compressed size (amd64): 361 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64, armv7 · source, retrieved 2026-07-24

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