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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

Authenticating with Okta

Okta is a well-known authentication provider for the enterprise and is newly supported in Grafana 7. The process is very similar to Google, but only requires the registration of your application with Okta in order to generate the client ID and secret. You'll need to sign up for a developer account in order to generate the appropriate secrets. Once you've logged in to your developer account, follow these instructions:

  1. Select Developer Console | Applications | Add Application.
  2. Select Web and Next:

  1. On the Application Settings page, fill in the following fields and click Done:
  • Name: Grafana
  • Base URIs: http://localhost:3000
  • Login Redirect URIs: http://localhost:3000/login/okta

  1. On the next page, under the General Settings tab, you'll find a Client Credentials...