Perses

Spec sheet

Purpose

Perses is an open dashboard tool for displaying observability data.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Support

For general questions, the project points users to GitHub Discussions or its CNCF Slack channel.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Authentication

Perses supports native user management and external OIDC or OAuth identity providers.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Authorization

Its access controls use a Kubernetes-inspired RBAC system with roles, role bindings, and fine-grained permissions.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

CI/CD

The native percli command-line tool can perform actions in CI/CD pipelines.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Dashboard-as-Code

Perses provides SDKs for writing dashboards as code and reusing components across dashboards.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Embed dashboards

Developers can embed panels and dashboards in their own UIs using Perses npm packages, without running the full application.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Grafana migration

Grafana dashboards can be imported through the web UI or migrated in batches with percli, with translation described as best effort.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Install options

The documentation describes container installation with Docker or Podman and Homebrew installation on macOS or Linux.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Kubernetes

The Perses operator manages instances and dashboards declaratively using Kubernetes Custom Resources.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Plugins

Perses has a plugin-based architecture that lets users extend its capabilities.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Project status

Perses is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and is released under the Apache 2.0 License.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Prometheus tools

Prometheus support includes specialized visualization panels, a metrics explorer, and a PromQL debugger.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Security contact

The project directs security issues to an email list seen only by core team members.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Supported data

It supports Prometheus metrics, Tempo traces, Loki logs, and Pyroscope profiles.Read 5 Oct 2026 · perses.dev

Plans and prices

Every Perses plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

• Kubernetes Monitoring#27 of 547.9