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Learn Grafana 7.0

By : Eric Salituro
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Learn Grafana 7.0

By: Eric Salituro

Overview of this book

Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginner's guide will help you get to grips with Grafana's new features for querying, visualizing, and exploring metrics and logs no matter where they are stored. The book begins by showing you how to install and set up the Grafana server. You'll explore the working mechanism of various components of the Grafana interface along with its security features, and learn how to visualize and monitor data using, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. This Grafana book covers the advanced features of the Graph panel and shows you how Stat, Table, Bar Gauge, and Text are used. You'll build dynamic dashboards to perform end-to-end analytics and label and organize dashboards into folders to make them easier to find. As you progress, the book delves into the administrative aspects of Grafana by creating alerts, setting permissions for teams, and implementing user authentication. Along with exploring Grafana's multi-cloud monitoring support, you'll also learn about Grafana Loki, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes. By the end of this book, you'll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Getting Started with Grafana
5
Real-World Grafana
13
Managing Grafana

Summary

We've reached the end of Chapter 10, Exploring Logs with Grafana's Loki. In this chapter, we learned how to use Explore with the Loki data source to perform ad hoc analysis of logs and aggregated log metrics and we deployed a Loki pipeline to aggregate filesystem log files and, by using a custom driver, the logs generated by Docker containers. Then, we used Prometheus to collect dozens of metrics about those container services. Finally, using the Split feature, we made side-by-side comparisons of both the log and service metrics.

With that, we've also reached the end of Section 2: Real-World Grafana. In Section 3: Managing Grafana, we'll step out of our role as an end user of Grafana and into that of an administrator. We'll learn about how to manage dashboards, users, and teams. We'll also look at how to secure the Grafana server by authenticating our users with services such as OAuth2 and LDAP. Finally, we'll explore the rapidly...