Why Grafana not in stable package list for Bookworm?

[sam71623]

A beginner's question.

Grafana does not appear in the bookworm stable allpackages list. https://packages.debian.org/stable/allp ... mat=txt.gz

Grafana has instruction for Debian https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest ... on/debian/.

I have not yet tried to install Grafana as I have not yet install Debian. I have installed Grafana on Raspberry Pi OS and RPi5 hardware and it works.

Which is correct meaning:

a. it is not pure free and open source? (their web site says they have commercial version and open source version) Is their "openness" is not meeting the Debian standard?

b. the software does not yet passed the technical reliability/stability/"bug-standard" for inclusion

[lindi]

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=923872

[sam71623]

Many thanks for quick and precise reply.

in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=923872, it says

Right now I'm using it as a Docker container

I did not use Docker non Virtual Machine before. What are the pro and con to choose one method over the other for running Grafana under Debian but 'want' some isolation. RAM is relatively low cost nowadays. May not be a big difference with either methods? I did not fully read document on this area.

Wikipedia says, from the 'child software' viewpoint, VM looks like a real hardware machine and has complete isolation as far as the child software see it. Docker is light-weight, do similar task with partial OS modules commonly shared. What is 'partially shared'?

[friendlysalmon88]

After doing a quick google search with the following search term I found this article on grafanas'wiki.

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest ... on/debian/