Grafana Experts in Austria
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Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Artellico / Own company for AI governance and data products
- Consulting and interim management at the intersection of IT operations and regulation
- Impact assessment and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Teaching assignments in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at Hochschule Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of Master's theses and participation on examination boards
- Industry talks for businesses and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and Zero-Knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- Integration with bank account systems using SEPA direct debit mandates and message formats under ISO 20022 (pain.008, camt.053)
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under my own brand: shared codebase, separate deployment for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe-coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Professional publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Professional publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
Christian W.
Last position:
Lead Developer & Performance Specialist at Groox GmbH
Sole responsibility for the design, development and deployment of the bilingual Qwik platform eventvideo.at. Responsible for frontend performance optimization (PageSpeed 97/100/100/100), SEO engineering with Schema.org, integration of Google Search Console and IndexNow, and building the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. Requirements gathering and technical implementation.
- Performance Engineering: Google PageSpeed Score 97/100/100/100 (Performance / Accessibility / Best Practices / SEO) through frontend optimization (lazy loading, thumbnail-first, lightweight media integration)
- Full-Stack Web Development: Sole responsibility for development with the Qwik.js framework from frontend to deployment for the bilingual (DE/EN) platform eventvideo.at, marketing personalized, fully automated participant videos for sports events
- Qwik.js Resumability Architecture: Server-side rendering with minimal JavaScript hydration overhead; the page remains immediately interactive even with extensive video and event content, without a full-page load.
- API Integration: Google Search Console API and IndexNow API for automated indexing and SEO monitoring
- SEO Engineering: Schema.org Structured Data implementation for rich snippets and improved search engine visibility
- Mobile-First with minimal bundle size: CSS3 layout without UI framework overhead, consistently lean use of resources for excellent PageSpeed on desktop and mobile.
- GitHub Actions CI/CD: Automated build, test and deployment pipeline for continuous integration
Technologies: Qwik.js Framework, TypeScript, JavaScript, Internationalization (i18n DE/EN), GitHub Actions CI/CD, Google Search Console API, IndexNow API, Schema.org, Google PageSpeed Insights, Lazy Loading, CSS3, Responsive Design
Emre H.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at SIWA Online GmbH
- Planning and implementation of IT infrastructures for customers
- Automation of provisioning with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- Monitoring and optimization of cloud environments and the entire IT infrastructure
- Technical support and troubleshooting for infrastructure issues
- Collaboration with development teams on CI/CD processes
Karl F.
Last position:
Managing Director at ONECEPT GmbH
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Tobias F.
Last position:
CTO & Founder at bitminds
Selected projects:
Kiosk platform – Hospitality
- Led a 3-person team while taking a hands-on role in designing an edge computing infrastructure for over 15 self-service kiosks in Alpine hotels with unstable connectivity
- Designed a Nomad-based cluster with a Wireguard mesh network for fully automated OTA updates, even during local network outages and offline operation
- Integrated physical peripherals (hotel card readers, thermal printers) into a containerized deployment pipeline
- Reduced on-site maintenance visits by ∼40% with a resilient offline-first architecture and Prometheus-based hardware monitoring
- Tech: Nomad, Consul, Wireguard, NestJS, NextJS, Prometheus, Custom Hardware Provisioning
Multi-tenant SaaS platform – Insurance claims management
- Built and operated the Kubernetes infrastructure for a market-leading claims management platform (acquired by an S&P 500 company) — with strict compliance and availability requirements
- Designed a multi-tenant EKS cluster with tenant isolation, enabling cost-effective single-instance hosting for multiple customers
- Introduced dynamic spot instance node pools, reducing infrastructure costs by ∼20%
- Built fully automated deployment pipelines (Terraform + GitHub Actions) for uninterrupted releases during business hours
- Tech: EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, PHP, GraphQL
Legacy ERP integration – Construction photo documentation
- Led a 2-person team in designing and building a real-time sync bridge between a legacy Microsoft Access ERP system (without an API) and a modern mobile photo app for construction quality control
- Developed a PostgreSQL pipeline with real-time listeners that extracts data from 1990s Access databases without disrupting existing workflows
- Built a resilient upload architecture using the circuit breaker pattern for unstable construction site connections (S3, NFS, Synology NAS)
- Saved 2–4 hours per week for each project manager through automated photo sync instead of manual USB/SD card transfers
- Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, React Native (Expo), S3, Synology API, Offline-First Architecture
Markus F.
Last position:
Managing Director & Senior Consultant at IT-Trail GmbH
- Custom software development
- Web hosting
- Support
- DevOps
- Technologies: C#, Node.js, Web, Windows, Linux, SQL, MS365, Azure, AWS
Michail M.
Last position:
OpenShift / Kubernetes Consultant at cloudWerkstatt
Implementation and operation of OpenShift / Kubernetes solutions for customers, focusing on aspects such as storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability. Support with application containerization and modernization.
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Developers, ~10 Teams, per Team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD pipelines, Azure Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnd, Test Automation)
- AI, Copilot, creating Test Templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit and Integration Tests
- Automated E2E Tests, Playwright Test Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Shipment tracking
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into AzureDataLake
Plamen M.
Last position:
Head of Service & Operations Management at Raiffeisen Bank International
- Shaping service management framework as part of head office of RBI
- Service owner overseeing IT cloud services, accountable for overall quality, lifecycle, and success
- Managing customer relationships and satisfaction for 10 business units ensuring smooth business continuity and operations
- Single point of contact and service/process owner providing T-shaped expertise in IT domains, cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Orca, CRM, GitHub, SFMC)
- ITSM/ITIL implementation and mentoring including design, definition, mapping, and execution
- Change and release management, UAT/test assurance, major incident management, SDLC management
- Managing regulatory and audit requirements, DORA, GDPR, ITPF compliance and reporting
- Acting as a point of escalation for complex customer issues, resolving conflicts, fostering a customer-centric culture
- People management: leading and managing service delivery teams, DevOps, vendors, and third-party teams
- Cross-tribe service delivery and contract management: KPIs, SLAs, OLAs, RPO, RTO, BCM/SCM management
- Agile/Scrum process delivery governance, stakeholder communication, and budget/cost management
Alexander V.
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Raphael M.
Last position:
Team Lead / Head of Service Desk & Field Service at B&R Industrial Automation (ABB)
- Owned day-to-day IT operations for Service Desk, Field Service, and on-call support, ensuring business continuity for a multi-site environment
- Led the transition from Lotus Notes incident tracking to ServiceNow, defining process design, workflows, roles, and reporting
- Implemented a modern telephony system with integrated reporting, enabling real-time visibility of volumes, wait times, and SLA adherence
- Launched a customer self-service portal and on-site walk-in support model to improve first-contact resolution and user experience
- Designed, documented, and rolled out SLAs, delivering targeted training for engineers and stakeholders to drive adoption and compliance
- Acted as process owner for service operations, establishing operating procedures, request/change/incident interfaces, and quality controls
- Partnered with business and IS/OT stakeholders to prioritize demand, reduce operational risk, and improve service reliability
Markus K.
Last position:
Document Development at Insurance Company
- Replacement of original Dopix documents and modules into the Quadient document environment
- Extension of document logic
Jaroslav A.
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
Benjamin A.
Last position:
Research Engineer at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
- Developed Taranis AI, an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
- Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure and led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment.
- Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.
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Statistics of experts using Grafana
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
83%
Master's degree or higher
48%
Doctorate
4%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Austria using Grafana
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Grafana experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (93%)
- Banking and Finance (48%)
- Professional Services (37%)
- Retail (30%)
- Education (26%)
- Insurance (26%)
- Manufacturing (26%)
- Government and Administration (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Dashboards and observability
Grafana is an open-source visualization and observability tool for exploring metrics, logs, traces and other time-series data. Teams use it to create dashboards that reveal service health, infrastructure capacity, application behavior and business signals. It can support live operations as well as long-term analysis.
Data source ecosystem
Grafana connects to a broad range of data sources through built-in and community integrations. Common combinations include Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL and cloud monitoring services. Strong specialists understand how query languages, labels, time ranges and transformations affect the final view.
Typical project work
- Design dashboards for Kubernetes clusters, applications and infrastructure
- Configure alerts, notification policies and escalation routes
- Connect Prometheus, Loki, Tempo or external monitoring data
- Standardize dashboard layouts, variables and reusable panels
- Set up Grafana provisioning and configuration as code
These deliverables help teams move from scattered telemetry to a shared operational picture. They also make recurring checks easier for support, platform and product teams.
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance Grafana specialists during observability rollouts, cloud migrations and monitoring cleanups. External expertise is useful when dashboards have become inconsistent, alerts create noise, or data sources are available but difficult to interpret. In Austria, collaboration may involve remote delivery across regions or on-site workshops for teams with complex operational processes.
Skills around Grafana
Effective work usually reaches beyond the dashboard editor. Relevant knowledge includes PromQL, LogQL, TraceQL, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Terraform, Git and CI/CD workflows. Professionals may also work with Grafana Alerting, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo and Grafana Alloy, depending on the monitoring architecture.
What strong professionals deliver
The best specialists start with the questions operators and business teams need answered, not with visual effects. They choose meaningful thresholds, readable panels and useful variables, then document ownership and alert behavior. Look for practical experience with permissions, folders, data-source security, performance, dashboard versioning and reliable handover to internal teams.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Grafana, in one place.
Grafana is used to query, visualize and monitor data from many sources in one interface. Companies use it for infrastructure dashboards, application observability, log exploration, alerting and operational reporting.
Grafana is a flexible visualization layer that can work across many data sources, while Kibana is closely associated with the Elastic ecosystem and Datadog provides a broader integrated monitoring service. The right choice depends on data ownership, existing tools, security needs and the level of managed functionality required.
A strong Grafana specialist often understands Prometheus, Loki, Kubernetes, cloud monitoring and infrastructure automation. PromQL, LogQL, SQL, Terraform, Git and CI/CD knowledge can be especially valuable when dashboards and alerts must be maintained as part of delivery workflows.
The right level depends on the scope. A focused dashboard improvement may need a specialist who can work within an existing setup, while a full observability rollout requires experience with data-source design, alert strategy, access controls and operational handover.
Grafana work is often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, queries and dashboards can be reviewed through shared repositories and environments. On-site sessions in Austria can still help when teams need workshops, access planning or close coordination with operations and security groups.
Ask the specialist to explain which decisions each panel supports and how alerts are expected to be acted on. High-quality Grafana work uses trustworthy queries, clear labels, sensible time ranges, documented ownership and dashboards that remain useful under real operational pressure.
Grafana can bring together metrics, logs and traces when connected to suitable sources such as Prometheus, Loki and Tempo. Correlation features and shared labels can help teams move from a symptom on a dashboard to the related logs or trace without changing their working context.
Freelancers working with Grafana should be comfortable clarifying remote and on-site expectations, documentation standards and the language used by the team. They should also be ready to explain observability decisions clearly to both technical specialists and operational stakeholders.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 792 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 48% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects are English (100%), German (96%), and French (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Banking and Finance (48%), and Professional Services (37%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (78%), and Operations (59%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Grafana
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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- Germany
- Austria
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