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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
Organizing Dashboards

Welcome to the third and final section ofLearn Grafana 7.0: Managing Grafana. By now, you've created some awesome dashboards. Maybe you've even set up valuable alerts with some of those dashboards, and now you're in the enviable position of being your team's Grafana guru. That great honor will be accompanied by great responsibilities. You're now the de facto manager of your Grafana server and all the requisite administrative tasks that come along for the ride.

In this section of this book, we'll cover some of the more common aspects of Grafana management, from keeping your dashboards tidy to managing and authenticating your users and teams, to monitoring your applications in the cloud. In Section 2: Real-World Grafana, we used various realistic scenarios to drive the descriptions and the associated exercises. In this section, we will present the material in a more straightforward...