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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

Configuring an AWS CloudWatch data source

This section assumes that you have an AWS account with administrative privileges. You'll also need to be logged into the AWS Management Console in order to work through these steps. The process is relatively simple:

  1. Create a policy to grant access to CloudWatch.
  2. Create a user and attach the policy to the user.
  3. Capture the user credentials.
  4. Configure an AWS data source with the user credentials.

Now, let's look at each of these steps in more detail.

Creating the policy

The first step toward creating a policy to grant our data source access to CloudWatch is using AWS and its Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. To get to the service, simply type IAM into the Find Services box on the Management Console page:

We will be creating a policy that allows Grafana to use the AWS CloudWatch API to get metrics data...