The SOFIA airborne observatory, a collaboration between NASA and the German Aerospace Center, uses a modified Boeing 747SP with a 2.7-meter reflecting telescope to conduct astronomical observations above the Earth's atmosphere, offering flexibility similar to satellites but with the ability to return home and swap instruments. During GrafanaCONline 2021, Ronan Higgins from the University of Cologne detailed how Grafana, integrated with the upGREAT instrument software stack, plays a crucial role in monitoring SOFIA's subsystems by consolidating diverse logging and graphing systems into a unified platform. The team channels around 2GB of data per flight into InfluxDB and Grafana, enabling real-time data visualization and quality assessment. Grafana dashboards allow astronomers to identify and address data quality issues, such as noise performance, during flights by correlating these problems with aircraft conditions. Looking forward, the team plans to utilize Grafana's alerting system more extensively for in-flight data quality alerts and aims to develop a custom plugin for linking data points to astronomical data. The adoption of Grafana in astronomy is expanding, with a trend towards system-wide monitoring using this tool, which has significantly improved data handling on SOFIA.