Grafana ships with **built in** support for CloudWatch. You just have to add it as a data source and you will be ready to build dashboards for you CloudWatch metrics.
Grafana ships with **advanced support** for Elasticsearch. You can do many types of simple or complex elasticsearch queries to visualize logs or metrics stored in Elasticsearch. You can also annotate your graphs with log events stored in Elasticsearch.
Grafana ships with **built in** support for InfluxDB 0.9.
Grafana ships with **built in** support for InfluxDB (> 0.9.x).
There are currently two separate datasources for InfluxDB in Grafana: InfluxDB 0.8.x and InfluxDB 0.9.x. The API and capabilities of InfluxDB 0.9.x are completely different from InfluxDB 0.8.x which is why Grafana handles them as different data sources.
This is the plugin for InfluxDB 0.9. It is rapidly evolving and we continue to track its API.
There are currently two separate datasources for InfluxDB in Grafana: InfluxDB 0.8.x and the latest InfluxDB release. The API and capabilities of latest (> 0.9.x) InfluxDB are completely different from InfluxDB 0.8.x which is why Grafana handles them as different data sources.
InfluxDB 0.8 is no longer maintained by InfluxDB Inc, but we provide support as a convenience to existing users. You can find it [here](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-influxdb-08-datasource).
This Alert List panel is **included** with Grafana.
The Alert List panel allows you to display alerts on a dashboard. The list can be configured to show either the current state of your alerts or recent alert state changes. You can read more about alerts [here](http://docs.grafana.org/alerting/rules).
The Plugin List plans shows the installed plugins for your Grafana instance and is **included** with Grafana. It is used on the default Home dashboard.