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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

Exploring the dashboard list panel

If you've taken a look at the Home dashboard, then you're already familiar with the Dashboard List panel. It typically displays starred dashboards (for quick reference) and a list of recently visited dashboards. It can be configured with several more options. Let's open it up and see what else we can configure it to do.

Setting dashboard list panel options

Under the Options section of the Panel tab are the following settings and descriptions:

  • Starred: Displays starred dashboards
  • Recently viewed: Displays recently viewed dashboards
  • Search: Displays the results of the Search section
  • Show headings: Displays the headings for each option mentioned previously
  • Max items: Sets the maximum number of items displayed of each type

The first three are toggle switches that enable and disable the display of starred, recently viewed, and search results...