# Shutting down Grafana

After deprecating the built-in Grafana in September 2023, **we’ll be shutting it down in February 2024 in favor of the [new collaborative dashboards](https://betterstack.com/dashboards).**

**Your existing Grafana queries will be automatically migrated** to the new [Explore logs](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/using-logtail/explore-logs/) section.

We’ll also be deprecating the original Logtail alerts in favor of the more sophisticated Dashboard alerts. 

## Why are we doing this?

Querying logs with Grafana allowed us to quickly prototype a ClickHouse-backed dashboarding experience in the early days of Better Stack. **As Better Stack matured, however, the Grafana interface proved extremely limiting in providing a cohesive user experience.** We wanted you to be able to easily switch between filtering logs and analyzing metrics and the only way to make it happen was to design a custom charting from the ground up: the new collaborative dashboards.

Moreover, creating dashboards directly on top of structured logs required us to parse structured JSON during query time. While flexible, this approach is extremely CPU-intensive and doesn’t scale to large datasets fast enough.

**Hence, we introduced [Logs-to-metrics](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/dashboards/logs-to-metrics/) a few months back**, a new, convenient way of automatically generating metrics out of your logs. Built on a brand new infrastructure, leveraging the ClickHouse -State & -Merge combinators, and backed by fast NVMe drives, **the new metrics infrastructure provides virtually limitless scaling and impressively fast querying speed while maintaining flexibility**. 

## Moving forward

Deprecating Grafana will allow us to further focus on building unbeatable dashboards for software engineers.

**The new dashboards already provide a superior experience to Grafana.** As an example, please give the built-in [anomaly detection](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/dashboards/alerts/) a shot if you haven’t tried it yet: we’re confident you’re going to love it.

## Get to know the new dashboards

Please read our guide on [querying metrics](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/dashboards/sql-queries/) and [defining custom logs-to-metrics](https://betterstack.com/docs/logs/dashboards/logs-to-metrics/).

## Need help? 

Please let us know your thoughts at hello@betterstack.com. We’re here to help!

Thank you for being our long-time customer. Your product feedback is invaluable, and it shapes Better Stack in moving forward.