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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

Administering users and organizations

There are two significant tasks that can only be performed by a user with the Super Admin role: management of users and management of organizations. When you logged into your brand new Grafana site as admin, you were logging in as a Super Admin, and as a Super Admin, you have the ability to create users and organizations. Managing users and organizations is accomplished through a special Server Admin view, which can only be accessed by Super Admins from the left sidebar.

First, let's look at how to create new users. Previously, we discussed the idea that the only way to add new user accounts is to invite someone or (with a configuration change) allow users to add themselves. Those restrictions only applied to organizations and organizational Admins. As it turns out, there is yet another way – if you're a Super Admin.

Managing users

If you have a number of users to add to your site and you need...