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Learn Grafana 7.0

By : Eric Salituro
Book Image

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

Establishing teams

Teams form the next level of a hierarchy of roles. While every user is assigned a permission level (Viewer, Editor, or Admin), you can also assign each user to a team, which can then have its own permission settings. The first thing we'll need to do is add a team.

Setting up a team

Setting up a team and adding users requires a user with an organization role of Admin. To create a team, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Configuration→Teams from the left sidebar.
  2. Click New team.
  3. Enter the Name of the team and an optional Email.
  4. Click Create, as shown in the following screenshot:


Once you've created a team, you can add users as members of the team, as follows:

  1. Go toConfiguration→Teamsfrom the left sidebar.
  2. Select the team you wish to add members to.
  3. Click Add member.
  4. Select a member...