How much RAM does Grafana need?

Plan on 1–2 GB for typical use; add headroom if you expect many concurrent users.

What stack does Grafana run on?

Single Go binary + datasources.

Yes — size the plan so Grafana plus your other workloads fit in RAM with room to spare.

Networking

Beautiful dashboards over your metrics and logs.

Query and visualise data from many sources with dashboards and alerting.

Grafana turns raw metrics into dashboards you can actually read, on your own infrastructure.

1
Provision a VPS
Choose a plan with room for your data as well as the app.
2
Install the stack
Install Single Go binary + datasources.
3
Deploy the application
Follow the project’s official install guide for your distribution.
4
Enable HTTPS
Serve it on your own domain behind a reverse proxy with a certificate.
5
Back it up
Schedule a database dump plus a copy of any uploaded files to an off-box location.

Give Grafana its own database user with rights only on its own schema.
Reverse-proxy Grafana and terminate TLS at the proxy so certificates are managed in one place.
Take a VPS snapshot before major upgrades so you can roll back cleanly.
Keep Grafana patched — most self-hosting incidents are unpatched software.

How much RAM does Grafana need?: Plan on 1–2 GB for typical use; add headroom if you expect many concurrent users.
What stack does Grafana run on?: Single Go binary + datasources.
Can I run other things on the same VPS?: Yes — size the plan so Grafana plus your other workloads fit in RAM with room to spare.

Looking for something else? Popular alternatives include Kibana, Netdata, Zabbix (frontend) — browse all app guides.